Well by not introducing some sort of package manager would make Haiku even less functional. How would you manage all of the dependencies that LibreOffice requires to even run? (Especially updating Qt and WebKit), let alone update the OS itself which BeOS didn't have any of this. I'm pretty sure that nearly every modern OS out there has some sort of package manager.

So I would say that by introducing this package manager has actually helped the project gain many usable applications which Haiku previously didn't have for some time.