Similar here. I'm sure MacPorts has improved since then and I should probably give it a spin next time I have a fresh macOS install, but back in the late 00s an

Similar here. I'm sure MacPorts has improved since then and I should probably give it a spin next time I have a fresh macOS install, but back in the late 00s and early 10s not only did I have issues with it breaking itself, but also constant issues with packages not compiling/installing, or if they did crashing due to some dependency issue. At that point in time I was a lot less technically capable, so on the rare occasion googling the issue would turn up a relevant mailing list archive, I usually wasn't able to act on it and I'd wind up procuring the package in question through some other method or just doing without. So when Homebrew came along and most things installed and ran fine with the rare issue that cropped up getting fixed fairly quickly, it easily stuck.