Brew used to be much more useful to me. Using brew years ago, it was way less opinionated and more flexible, which was perfect for OSX. Homebrew's response to

Brew used to be much more useful to me. Using brew years ago, it was way less opinionated and more flexible, which was perfect for OSX. Homebrew's response to criticism seems to be to continually narrow the field of users and the scope of their project, and tell users to use something else. People are only frustrated because they found it to be so helpful. But I suppose that it had to mature, or something like that.