The Incredible Shrinking Fedora

I think it's funny because we are going back to something more like Fedora Core / Extras where they started out, because packaging the whole world in a way that satisfies everyone is infeasible.

I'm using Silverblue and Bazzite and for desktops prefer this change management style where the whole OS is considered one single versioned firmware image and local config, local data and local apps are distinct separately managed tbings. To me that keeps the conceptual complexity down because you can treat huge swaths of software as a single abstract unit, even when those units are built up using traditional atomized packaging techniques.

Debian has a huge number of volunteers who work on packaging and its still very difficult to manage everything that way, at the smallest atomic unit of software