I don't even like Homebrew, but I use it because of the network effect. Several years ago I tried a bunch of package managers in identical VMs on MacOS and noti

I don't even like Homebrew, but I use it because of the network effect. Several years ago I tried a bunch of package managers in identical VMs on MacOS and noticed Nix was slower than all the others (all operations), missing packages, and some packages were broken. During that experiment I really liked pkgsrc, Homebrew didn't have a few things I needed and outright refused to install TeX Live (it literally said it was too hard to build). I stuck with MacPorts for a few years until MacPorts started having many broken packages from lack of maintainers, then I reluctantly switched to Homebrew.