Yes, I blame the distros. Should have always just used release bundled as target systems. Though releases weren't always so easy to build with Erlang before relx and rebar3 (full disclosure: I'm biased on that).

I also played around with an idea of bunding the release into a self extracting bundled executable too https://gist.github.com/tsloughter/d62aad6d67b263e69275376b1...