Because a mini thing can be written in mini time by a mini number of people

And a mini thing can be switched to another 'mini' package easy enough if the current package decides to do something dumb.

If your mega package decides to drop something you need you pretty much have to follow.

	▲	skydhash 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> If your mega package decides to drop something you need you pretty much have to follow. Or you can code it in. Mega packages can be very stable. Think SDL, ffmpeg, ImageMagick, Freetype...There's usually a good justification for dropping something alongside a wide deprecation windows. You don't just wake up and see the project gone. It's not like the escape codes for the unix terminal are going to change overnight.