It's not just an "open-source dev team". They're maintaining a distribution. They've decided to manage their own packages in parallel to upstream and provide a user-script install helper they expect you to use.

Convenience-after, sure, but this whole distro is built around convenience-first and sometimes convenience-only. I mean we're also not talking about first offenses here. Ensuring you SSL key is valid is table stakes for an operating system hosting packages, but falling down four times? It's just obviously not a priority which is unsettling for a product that installs and maintains all your software.

If this was a group of devs building a digital egg timer, I'd agree with you, but this is your *operating system* we're talking about.