> Meanwhile Debian doesn't suffer from any of this because it's been doing things so as to avoid these issues all along.

Except that it's clear that Debian is suffering from a manpower problem and has run into fundamental scaling limits with its current architecture.

Thus, we're seeing things like Nix and Silverblue at the OS level with Snaps and Flatpak at the application level.

I don't know what the solution is, but it seems to me like Debian is going to need to do something shortly.