vendor your dependencies people
If your CI or deploys broke because of this, it basically means you're constantly re-installing all your dependencies from scratch, which is totally silly.
Configure your CI & other tools to cache the bundler directory between builds and not only you'll be protected from this, you'll also make your systems faster.
Alternatively we could have continuee to deploy for a few more days until Rails core shipped a new version of Active Storage without that dependency.
It's effectively the same as vendoring, except we're not blowing up our repositories with 10 years of dependencies.
All in all, this kind of thing happens once in a blue moon...
But having that cache means you have the time to get a clean solution rather than having to rush something because nobody can work anymore can you can't deploy fixes to production either.
These yanking issues are really problematic, but if they interrupted your workflow, then there's something wrong with your build pipeline.
Sure you will be as much in violation of GPL as without that (even if you don't deploy you will violate the GPL), but that is another problem which needs to be addressed.
Only if the issue is fixed upstream before your cache expires. Obviously, breaking Rails gets things fixed quickly, but what if it was a less-actively-maintained gem?
Negative side effects: You need to update your vendor cache periodically, your repo increases in size, and native gems have problems if if you develop on a different platform than you deploy.