This issue is not specific to Linux and anyone who's worked in development should be pretty familiar with it. You get onboarded to project A which requires Node

This issue is not specific to Linux and anyone who's worked in development should be pretty familiar with it. You get onboarded to project A which requires Node, okay, you install Node. Some time later you get onboarded to project B which requires a different version of Node. Fine, get nvm and jump between different versions of Node. A bit later you're asked to help out on legacy project C, which only works with Python 2, while you also need Python 3 for newer stuff. After that it's only a matter of time until you need something which requires Homebrew and then all the cards are off the table. Etc.