alt Hacker NewsI don't agree this is an issue and I'll tell you why: Homebrew isn't responsible for keeping the system functional like apt or pacman, it's a supplemental thing. I've also found it's useful in this capacity on Linux specifically with LTS distros, I can get the latest fzf or zoxide or whatever without having to add some shady repo.
This is how I see/use brew as well, and being able to just blow the directory away anytime and start over if need be is nice.
It's not a "system" package manager, nor was it ever meant to be. Its supplemental. I've also found it valuable on the various immutable linux distros.