Free software's not-so-eXZellent adventure

It's one thing to say that $PACKAGE has to go.

It's another thing to say that $PACKAGE can be replaced by objectively superior $ALTERNATIVE.

The real thing is to be Git and be both so "superior" and have enough marketing mass to decimate the alternatives.

Probably what's needed is, e.g. an not only an autoconf => cmake (for example) translator, but a name that can straight up replace the old stuff, beginning with GNU in its entirety.

Maybe the answer is a huge kickstarter at GNU. Doubling down, this might also be a post-RMS marketing campaign for the FSF.