There's no consensus mostly because namespace proponent, despite all the noise they make, haven't been able to articulate a constructed argument about what namespace is actually bringing to the table.

For instance, most of them bring typosquatting as a problem that namespaces solve, yet they completely ignore namespace typosquatting: for instance instead of typosquatting `ripgrep` with `rigrep`, you'd typosquat `burntsushi/ripgrep` with `bunrtsushi/ripgrep`…