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Apt is easily the single most confusing and ineffective package manager I've ever used

Why do people like Debian and Ubuntu so much??

Stockholm Syndrome?

@skadi I think it's a historic mindshare. Although apt is awful, it predates yum. So, there was a gap of a couple of years when RPM-based distros had nothing, and Debian had apt. Moreover, yum started out in some very niche distro, maybe Yellowdog. So users of Red Hat suffered an even bigger gap. It's a good thing that Red Hat survived that, because Debian was a dumpster fire in all other respects (e.g. picking /lib over /lib64 was a super dumb move).

@skadi It was kind of one of the first package managers that handled retrieving all of the dependencies and such as well as it did. Back when it was released I think Redhat was just using bare rpm. It's a bit old at this point though. One of the few distros that still has its package management scheme from back when APT was released is Slackware, and pretty much all of them were similar to slackware back then.