I like Debian, but I agree it's become too slow and bureaucratic.
Sadly, like most big organizations, it is hard to implement changes from inside.
In my opinion, most Debian's issues stem from a centralized imperative package manager where all packages need to be carefully kept in sync for things to work. Moving to something like Nix would greatly simplify development.
This is far from a new idea. In fact, it was quite thoroughly discussed in debian-devel mailing list back in 2008, 2013 and several other times [1].
Sadly, like most big organizations, it is hard to implement changes from inside.
In my opinion, most Debian's issues stem from a centralized imperative package manager where all packages need to be carefully kept in sync for things to work. Moving to something like Nix would greatly simplify development.
This is far from a new idea. In fact, it was quite thoroughly discussed in debian-devel mailing list back in 2008, 2013 and several other times [1].
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg01007.html