[zrn900]

> gigabytes upon gigabytes of random stuff that just gets pulled in from everywhere in IDEs, package managers, build pipelines and container images.

Let's face it though - things are working pretty well at gigantic scales despite that. Apparently, what we have now works. There would certainly be wrongdoers who abuse it at this scale, and some of them could be significant abuses. But, however you look at it, things are working well at large.