The funny thing is that Apple uses Homebrew internally. We had custom taps and it was part of a lot of setup documentation in our Confluence. I think the issue

The funny thing is that Apple uses Homebrew internally. We had custom taps and it was part of a lot of setup documentation in our Confluence. I think the issue is that Apple isn't "one" thing. There are thousands of engineers, each with their own opinion, but also a thousand lawyers and corporate executives who are very concerned with how every action will make Apple "look" as a company. Sometimes their decisions made sense, sometimes they don't.