[ozgrakkurt]

Curious if they could just choose one and move on. It is really toxic to do this on every layer.

For example how bad would it be if reqwest only supports rustls and is able to have less traits/generics and compiles faster

[mattstir]

That locks users into an ecosystem that may never evolve, which can be fine but doesn't really solve one of the core issues the author was describing. It forces the ecosystem to depend on the oldest and most incumbent crates, rather than newer ones which might be better in some ways.