Comment by nsagent

Agreed. I switched from Homebrew to MacPorts a few years ago and couldn't be happier. I just delay upgrading macOS until MacPorts officially supports the latest OS (which often takes a bit longer than Homebrew).

NOTE: I briefly tried Gentoo Prefix, so I could use the same setup for both Linux and macOS, but that required quite a bit more time investment than I'm willing to deal with. I spent even less time trying out Nix, but the learning curve was steeper than I had the time for, so I gave up on it pretty quickly.