It's built by a conglomeration of users across various projects, with differing levels of quality and support. There is only so much a distro maintainer can do to curate and test and avoid breakage. The permutations are too many for any manual process to handle, so you've got breakages.

Late binding exposing issues that cause run time exceptions. Except it’s not functions it’s bins in in paths. (Or shared objects (shudder))