but I do fuckdamn expect a certain commonality between how repositories are handled which DOES NOT EXIST in the current ecosystem.

Well, combining that and

JSYK if you live anywhere in the eastern half of the U.S. it is likely that your packets are going at least partway over a cable I laid with my own hands. You can estimate my expertise any way you want but my employer’s satisfaction with my work outweighs some internet rando’s opinion of a few hundred words.

that, then I agree that Red Hat and things based on it suck, but I don't see what does this have to do with "the current ecosystem", because different distributions handle repositories differently.