If you avoid duplication of effort by doing something worse than existing solutions, is that progress? Distro package managers have more than 20 years doing th

If you avoid duplication of effort by doing something worse than existing solutions, is that progress? Distro package managers have more than 20 years doing this. If you want to replace them I think there should be fewer drawbacks. Otherwise you are throwing out decades of design, thought, bug fixes for something more problematic.