I guess the simplest explanation is that software is growing larger, and in the end we should be expecting to adding new packages faster than removing dead ones. Add to that the grotesque inefficiency of modern programming languages such as Go and Rust.
Wouldn’t initiatives like rust-dev[0] help with that? I know that Debian is also packaging Rust this way[1].
[0]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Rust/rust-dev [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Rust Hoël
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