Imo somebody decided to write a stream-of-consciousness blogpost, and then somebody else posted it here without context.

The topic's interesting and worth discussing, and like many HN posts, the gold seems to be in the comments, so I would be sad to see it removed.

I gave up after about a 1/4 It didnt seem to be going anywhere. Is it a shaggy dog story? I didn’t read the punchline.

tl;dr - package manager bad, immutable distro good