What interferes with supporting “normal” builds is the effort required to actually support them. If that was a given, there’d be no justification for us having gotten ourselves in this mess in the first place. The realities of increasingly choose-your-own-adventure nature of Linux have come home to roost, and people are quite rightfully wanting to spend their effort elsewhere.

I say this as someone that was using Gentoo before lxc even existed. So this isn’t code for “I don’t get it”.