iirc, they actually contacted Max Howell (creator of homebrew) and got his input on how to make command line tools work better for developers and homebrew specifically.
Assuming this happened and lead to anything it is still far from actually supporting it.
IIRC Max now works at Apple and is responsible for Swift's package manager.
I think he left sometime last year
https://changelog.com/podcast/232 they start talking about his departure from Apple at 55 min and 26s, unless he went back recently