The deeper I followed the links, the better the articles became

1. Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship
2. Free Isn’t Free: The Hidden Costs of Tooling Decisions in Open Source Infrastructure

The latter, Sonatype, article, gives some concrete examples of where it went wrong.

1. Gradle: Centralization Challenge
2. React Native: Unintentional Overload
3. Publishing as a Performance Test?
4. SCA at Scale, Without a Cache

and concludes with some actionable suggestions.