Getting every software into every distro is not feasible, it's a NxM problem. Sometimes this encourages the use of third-party repositories, which I would argue is even unsafer because it requires root access.

Flatpak is a nice suggestion but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work nicely for CLIs.

> "Back in the day" we cloned the source code and compiled ourself instead of distributing binaries & install scripts.

Isn't that the same thing with the extra step of downloading a git repo?