You are spot on yet at the same time this is about 99% of Linux.
Would love to see us move back towards linux being linux (a kernel) and less of a need to even 'join' a Distro or pick sides if you will.
You are really picking a package manager and a philosophy on upstream software ... it is unfortunate you're implicitly or inadvertently being forced to pick about 11,000 other things too.
Those 11k other things are usually the minimum needed to have a production ready system that doesn't require you as a user to jump through hoops to provision and maintain.
