Assuming MBAs can do math might be a mistake. I've worked on an MBA pet project that squandered millions in worker time and opportunity cost to save 30k mrc...
Yeah I started in the Red Hat 2 era, played with all the WMs and DEs, compiled my own kernel a few times. After a point I had too much going on in my life to tinker with my distro. My needs are simple, I just need a terminal and a package manager.
Snaps have issues sure, but anything is better than the dependency hell of old.
My server has a raid1 mdadm boot drive. And an 8 dive raid6 with zfs. It's been running for 14 years now. The only thing that I haven't replaced over it's lifetime is the chassis. In fact the proc let out the magic smoke a few weeks ago, after some new parts it's still going strong.
Once heard a guy tell me about a game he was in. When a player didn't show up the character turned into a gold coin. And when the player returned the coin would turn back into a character. During the game the party found out the BBEG was the one doing rituals to turn people into the coins.
We'll stop carrying it around after we can be sure the mob isn't trying to kill us, maybe after this weekends party.