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It's going to have terrible UX, a complete pain to build, the contribution process is going to be some git send-email mailing list nonsense, it's going to expect you to have read the manual (probably in
infojust to be difficult) cover to cover before you even consider using it.But on the other hand it probably has at least decent documentation, it probably works reasonably well, and there's zero chance of rug pulls, closed source add-ons, etc.
Overall I would say it has negative connotations. If you said "check out this package manager, Fooly", I'd think "ok might be good, might not". If you said "check out this package manager, GNU Fooly", I would say hell no. It'll be awful.
It's the software equivalent of books that have "how to read this book" sections.
All in all, we will only have ourselves to blame.