"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

I would argue such community exists: it's goes under the name of Red Hat & Fedora, Debian & Ubuntu, openSUSE & SLES etc.

Which does nothing for people who run Windows or MacOS. Even on Linux, it doesn't help very much for bleeding edge libraries under rapid development, which may be too new to have gotten attention from the distribution and may be way out of date if they have. Personally, I think the approach to developing that depends on those unstable, bleeding edge libraries is deeply flawed. Obviously there are plenty of developers who disagree, and the languages have decided to side with those developers.