[woodruffw]

I think you’re confusing two things: PyPI has maintainers end administrators, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a curated index. Like RubyGems, NPM, Cargo, etc., PyPI explicitly does not present a curated view of the packaging ecosystem. Doing so would require orders of magnitude more staffing than the index already has.

Python as a community prefers standards over implementations, which is why you could easily stand up your own curated alternative to PyPI if you wanted to. But think you’ll discover that the overwhelming majority of users don’t want their resolutions breaking just because a particular package hasn’t needed an update in the last 6 months.