[jnxx]

> Additionally, due to the nature of the package manager (and static linking), it's very easy to freeze the churning sections of the ecosystem for your application, use the important dependencies and even patch bugs you're encountering.

Bug fixes are rarely back-ported, and if one wants to use new features, it is all too common to force an upgrade onto an partially incompatible version. And it is an open secret that most software users to not like that. They do not like change because they pay most of the cost.

The right way to do this is to have instead long-term backwards-compatible, ultra-stable APIs, and do development on these. And one cannot say that this isn't possible - this is precisely what the Linux kernel does.