Unfortunately, even the maintainers of dpkg/apt, who rely on GPG extensively, don't manage to plug all holes: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2018/02/21/attacks-against-...

Personally, I'm of the opinion that APIs should be as misuse-resistant as possible, and GPG is notoriously intransigent about actually acting as a well-designed API. Additionally, The Update Framework (TUF, https://theupdateframework.github.io/) prevents these issues by design.