I think the takeaway is that package management is ripe for improvement, but CM tools (and more flexible tools like Ansible) do so many more things besides auto

I think the takeaway is that package management is ripe for improvement, but CM tools (and more flexible tools like Ansible) do so many more things besides automating package management that I question the author's mention of them for anything besides a hook to get more pageviews. This article has little to do with config management. A better title would be "apt, yum and brew aren't good enough; we can do better".