Part of the problem is the API kept breaking every other version; ffmpeg is an amazing project for users but has historically been a nightmare to integrate with and package, for this reason.
It's gotten better in the past few years, though, but there's still a lot of legacy codebases that are useless today because they won't build against modern ffmpeg any more (even though the rest of it is fine).
It's gotten better in the past few years, though, but there's still a lot of legacy codebases that are useless today because they won't build against modern ffmpeg any more (even though the rest of it is fine).