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operating from memory here, but the last time i used debian (sid/unstable 2 decades ago), it was a SLOW mess of multiple tools with some intersection in functionality/purpose. the tools were/are written in 4+ languages as another anon mentioned. someone (i think the mint guy) created a "super tool" that encompasses all others under one interface, and it had hundreds of subcommands, which is an indication of wrong retarded complexity. 4+ tiers of run-time dependencies is retarded. separate *-dev packages is, was, and will always be unnecessarily retarded. building your own packages wasn't the easiest streamlined well-documented-for-average users process. i could go on and on and on. and the fact that the freeze-the-world "stable distro" model itself is a facade of logically incoherent presumptions doesn't help.
compare that to pacman/makepkg which was already nearly perfect back then, a coherently designed package manager that is the right kind of simple: not bare-bones, not retardedly complex, lightweight, fast, debuggable/deconstructable, non-disruptively iteratively improvable, and trivial to build with.