[coder543]

> I don't think my example was remotely "broken" at all, that's just another day doing software development.

It's not the norm for me. If this is what you consider to be the norm, then this kind of statement doesn't make me feel any better about Ruby.

I will say that Bundler is one of the better package managers, but the existence of the constraint solver doesn't fix this problem -- Bundler doesn't allow you to have multiple versions of a single dependency. The problem is fundamentally the dependency not maintaining its compatibility guarantees, which I would definitely call "broken". Sometimes breakage is unavoidable, like with security fixes that you want to be available even to users of existing SemVer versions, but it should not be a common situation.