If your package system doesn't help you quickly see and thus be able to compare the freshness and activity of packages, then it sucks. Cf. python packaging afaict. Like, having a link to a zip file and a date, all at the very bottom of the page, sucks. I prefer at least GitHub where I can more quickly see when the last commit was.

It would be a good UX interview question: how do design package overview web pages to make all the possibly relevant info for all the possibly realistic use cases all work out holistically.