I know that there are usually workarounds to these problems, but they tend to be obscure, and change frequently, and are not simple to look up.

Pacman, apt, portage, etc have much more stable interfaces. But the workarounds for my edge cases in Homebrew from a year ago don't work anymore. Even knowing what is an edgecase or not is a problem.

Most of these issues would be fine if the interface changed as slowly and consistently as Linux package managers.