The fact that you speak of "the Linux distro community" but also "the APT / dpkg model" is already telling. Most distros — i.e., everything not derived from Debian — don't even use the same package format. A lot of the problem has been mitigated simply by letting people choose among competitive suites of alternatives.

That said, there's been quite a bit of drama lately in prominent Linux projects — notably bcachefs, X11 (and the fork XLibre), and the Omarchy distribution (even connected to the current story!).