Sounds idealistic and raises some questions.

Why? Who decides? Who stops someone from introducing a new package manager? Why should a person developing a package manager be “stopped”?

I don’t agree.

Devs could just provide a Dockerfile containing the build environment and a script. That would pair nicely with CI and automated builds. No need to restrict package managers. Also, flatpak exists.

Yeah well, playing around with the package manager, for example creating templates for newer version of apps, definitely keeps me engaged, when I find the time 😄

Okay :) I’ve been using it for a few years now, have never looked back at arch or any other distribution 😄

I don’t agree with it being a cheap version of arch, it works too good for that, it deserves more respect