They're really excited about 1.0 for this reason, they're tired of breaking other people's builds too. The goal is to limit that with the 1.0 release, so expect this to get a lot better.
I follow some of the relevant repositories, and there has been a big effort over the last few months to get many many loose ends cleaned up, toward a stable set of tools that will change in a predictable cadence without undue breakage.
