Maven is just as opinionated, jealous, and terrible, but its impact is restricted to JVM packages, mostly (hopefully) in the development stage, and so the consi

Maven is just as opinionated, jealous, and terrible, but its impact is restricted to JVM packages, mostly (hopefully) in the development stage, and so the consistency issues don't come up. I ultimately agree that the system package managers do a poor job of wrapping language-specific package managers. But you lost me when you suggested Maven has a good user experience compared to most OS package managers. If that was a sly joke, then it was a good one.