Not implementing namespaces is fantastically lazy, to the point of outright professional negligence.
If you can't be bothered to lift a finger to type in the few hundred lines of code it takes to implement namespaces, then by definition you're not responsible enough to run a public package repository.
Do it properly or don't do it at all.
Whatever the effort level is, it is certainly much lower than the thousands of Rust users navigating a tangled mess of typo squatting, name conflicts, crate spam, and difficulty in identification of official or related crates.
Again: If the crates.io team doesn't have even just this much time, then by definition they don't have the time to manage the site responsibly. They should shut it down, seek funding, or hand it over to someone else.
Doing anything else is irresponsible.
Problem is what happens when someone claims google, amazon, and then stars doing shady stuff with it.
And maybe that somebody, was working for such organization and then left on bad terms and doesnt want to give login code or whatever.
It's not that easy problem to solve, and you need to have people on standby to resolve such issues, some of which might include layers.
Implementing namespaces in code are not even 10% of effort for this to work.