I've seen the future and its the past.

Posted Nov 8, 2018 15:05 UTC (Thu) by rweikusat2 (subscriber, #117920)
In reply to: Rant by drag
Parent article: Limiting the power of package installation in Debian

What I do see is that distribution package management systems are increasingly relegated to simply setting up a base OS while other tools are used to manage most of the important software (from a perspective as a end user/developer/service provider) separate-but-on-top-of Linux distributions.

Not much change here: That's totally traditional "sysadminning" as it has been done since the 1980s (possibly even earlier).