I have written software that would have been 100% not package-able any other way. Also, let’s not lie to ourselves, there are plenty of ridiculous contraptions

I have written software that would have been 100% not package-able any other way. Also, let’s not lie to ourselves, there are plenty of ridiculous contraptions out there, like docker-images used for ML that take up some insane space, and are updated each day. Packaging is a hard problem, and there is finally a tool that can actually solve it.