Anyone interested in forking homebrew? Seems like they need more competition when it comes to user friendly package managers (macports doesn't count).

It's a pity the original author got lost in the crypto rabbit hole

https://tea.xyz/

There's also Sps2 which is written in Rust but it's very early stage

https://github.com/alexykn/sps2

Breaking the momentum and institutional adoption of homebrew is non-trivial but the developer community needs to band together unless we want to be slaves to Apple's whims forever. The current homebrew maintain Mike McQuaid clearly had no interest in listening to users.

Unfortunately, requires root, no Intel mac, no reuse of the large brew manifest library... The first 3 opened issues capture the core deficiencies perfectly