I hear you. Building this was really hard work. Open sourcing it is an achievement: the team had to navigate fraught corporate politics, untangle internal dependencies, etc. Technically it's excellent, no doubt. The site is appealing and convincing: legit kudos to whoever designed and built it.

Maybe Please is so dramatically better that it pulls tons of projects into its orbit! What a great outcome: I'd contribute PRs for every missing use case, accelerating the consolidation.

But if (as the site says) the goal is building something at parity but with a slightly different focus, then it can only produce further fragmentation. Projects that adopt Please inject dependencies on random S3 buckets and .bashrc edits. I can't accept that in the software I maintain, so any Please-built projects are de-facto inaccessible. That's bad.

By all means do what's best for ThoughtMachine, but publishing and promoting this makes building OS software harder, not easier.