Yes, I think documentation is part of the problem. When I was a heavy Debian user several years ago I tried to create my own packages but failed. The problem

Yes, I think documentation is part of the problem. When I was a heavy Debian user several years ago I tried to create my own packages but failed. The problem was that the documentation was too numerous to find anything, especially the current way to build packages. Every single resource I tried had 2-3 different ways to build packages and it was difficult|impossible to tell which one was the "recommended" way. I ended up not creating any packages and moving on to another distro. :(