If you need extra features you use extra programs which are tailored to those features. Unix philosophy.
The free SNCF Ticket to Bordeaux as compensation sounds like a fucking joke.
They want to manage their own smart doorbell instead of using one of the commercial cloud connected ones.
I mean, we live in a world where there are multiple use cases for non-GNU/Linux (i.e. Alpine). Surely the distinction has become useful.
And that’s why Portage is the best package manager