Overall they do way more good than harm. Trashing them because they sometimes make mistakes is probably incorrect.
Now to keep them updated is another story.
We trust, or used to trust, distros for this. Why are they messing with the source?
On the other hand I am not sure how to actually vet all used tools. For instance if you take Helm there are many pointers to repos for various Linux distros and other OSs: https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/
Who to trust? While the Helm page says "members of the community" are in charge of the Ubuntu repo the Fedora repo is called an "official repository". Presumably judging from the OP that means "official Fedora repo" opposed to "official Helm repo".
So essentially there are no repos of the Helm maintainers which makes installing and auto-updating it on any Linux distro virtually impossible.
Looks like it's a bug in Helm, but actually isn't Helm's fault, the issue was introduced by Fedora Linux.
(This issue is linked from the article, but it took me some time to find it.)
Let's translate: how to take down whatever by living on the bleeding edge.
