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Which is exactly what my second paragraph said :). This is a common struggle for many older programming language ecosystems, e.g. I think the same is true to some extend for C and C++.

As one of the sibling commenters mentions, there are good examples that it is possible to standardize packaging better. Maven replaced IDE-driven builds and Ant for in the Java ecosystem and added proper package management. Additionally, it required that projects start conforming to standardized layouts, by taking convention over configuration and being largely declarative. I think the Maven success story lost some of its shine with Gradle, but that's another story.