Currently, managing dependencies correctly by vetting them with each and every version bump is huge amount of overhead and it grows with each dependency pulled in. The way we as an industry have been handling it has largely been to keep going like we don't need to.

It's going to keep getting worse until a) developers and project managers realize doing inherently unsafe things is bad and b) they have the resources to give the additional ongoing levels of scrutiny. I'm not hopeful that this will happen at large in the industry, though I know it _is_ happening within individual companies and projects.

I'm sure we'll mitigate the damage to some extent by making package managers smarter and implementing finer-grained permissions. That will improve the situation over time, but it also takes us in the wrong direction by allowing us to forget that when we're shipping dependencies, we ultimately own their behavior.