So at the end of the day, it's either about the effort to inventory the current registry and find sources that are available, or do this on an ongoing as-needed basis (eg something like para would allow an index to be hosted in a github repo managed with PRs).
I've got an X3 that is rock solid even after me and the bike flying apart in an attempt to avoid collision with a truck. And its design is the primary reason why I decided to start biking again to begin with - I just find it so pleasantly satisfying I just want to ride it. So IDK, but I haven't seen a viable alternative yet.
A while ago I built an alternative plugin manager for Terraform (https://github.com/paraterraform/para) and explored the idea of distributed indices (where you just host a file in the repo as seen in https://github.com/ashald/terraform-provider-stateful/blob/m...).
So at the end of the day, it's either about the effort to inventory the current registry and find sources that are available, or do this on an ongoing as-needed basis (eg something like para would allow an index to be hosted in a github repo managed with PRs).