I use debian all the time, and the major libraries are versioned, and some have more than one version available. Debian is a very common linux distro, and through it, a lot of child distros get it too. AFAIK, RedHat and Fedora do this too.
So, do you mean that the state of adoption is bad for niche linux distros?
We supposedly discovered concrete 2 millennia ago but only adopted it widely 150 years ago.
I wouldn't diss people who actually have a shot at fixing the problem, even though you might not like their solution.