Because writing a linked list by hand for the 1000th time is definitely safer than importing it from a crate with many collections already implemented... Not
I'm not saying we shouldn't use crates. I'm agreeing that maybe we still have to be cautious about them, and in the "early days" when we were doing hand-coded stuff and saying "See how easy this is? Why was this hard in C" are long gone. For the very reasons you implied with your sarcasm.