At Cloudsmith, a universal package manager is being promoted as a flexible solution for deploying and distributing software artifacts. This solution utilizes multi-format repositories, which allow different packages in various formats to be stored in the same location. This approach enables organizations to organize their packages by environment, project, or package type without being limited by traditional package management constraints. The benefits of this approach include reduced complexity, increased flexibility, and improved scalability, making it suitable for modern tech stacks with diverse languages, frameworks, and tools.