> The developers have convinced themselves that they're right on this, having, I suppose, not learned from the hundreds of package managers that have come befor

> The developers have convinced themselves that they're right on this, having, I suppose, not learned from the hundreds of package managers that have come before them. They're wrong; full stop, no qualifications, no asterisk, no footnote, they are totally wrong on this and it is inevitable that their opinion will change. A thousand times this. Why are so many things in software three-steps-forward-two-steps-back?