I only know of Salt by name, often mentioned together with Puppet, Chef and Ansible. Two things strike to me as a non-user that has landed on their home page:

* An automation tool owned by Broadcom? Haha very funny, I think I'll pass.

* The tag line on the home page: "Welcome to Salt Project. The largest, friendliest, and most active open source community in the world." — wow, that's very helpful. I was just thinking of joining a friendly open source community. This might be the blandest, least inspired home page I have ever seen for a product aimed at developers.

It takes three Page Downs to get to a mention that this is an infrastructure management tool. This to me is a huge red flag that whoever is running the show now is far, far removed from the original goal and aims of the product. I would not be surprised if Salt has turned into a vehicle for VMWare/Broadcom to get a foothold inside a company and sell them expensive addons and support plans.