Not sure about other languages, but with #JavaScript culture, we usually read docs online for the installed modules.
As projects bitrot, there's increasing dissonance between the installed versions & docs for the current version. So you can be "following the docs", yet the code doesn't work.
Also as projects bitrot, it becomes more complex and fragile to upgrade dependencies to the current version.
It would be great if it was easier to read the docs of the installed versions.