If I were a web developer, I'd feel a great pang of anxiety when building my project and seeing libraries 3-levels removed from me desparately ask for money. As if there were some great precarity the whole environment was perched upon... One left-pad from disaster...

"You're the worst developer! Die you rushsin fascist!" I would email, wiping a bead of sweat off my brow. There's a zoom meeting with the client in ten minutes, and he's going to yell at me about the font size again. I don't have time for this maintainer bullshit.