Yes and no. There are cultural issues that cause Lispers to build not "a package system" but "a (complex) meta-system with which you can build your own package

Yes and no. There are cultural issues that cause Lispers to build not "a package system" but "a (complex) meta-system with which you can build your own package system", but I think there's still a recognition that the situation today is pretty lousy. It sure seems like we've had ASDF forever, but it only dates to late-2002 -- before that, we had mk-defsystem (which was even worse). I think ASDF will turn out to be one of those things that people only used because we had no alternative. If XCVB is good, ASDF could die a very quick death.