This isn't a good dichotomy though. Either "Build it from source" or "Wait for a professional 3rd party to package it for you".
The idea that your OS distro needs to explicitly support and package every software you could ever want to use seems crazy to me.
Both users and authors want the same thing: low-effort, high-quality distribution of software.
Personally I put my support behind flatpak for GUI, mise for CLI/TUI, but it's not a perfect solution and I occasionally bail out to homebrew/linuxbrew.
The idea that your OS distro needs to explicitly support and package every software you could ever want to use seems crazy to me.
Both users and authors want the same thing: low-effort, high-quality distribution of software.
Personally I put my support behind flatpak for GUI, mise for CLI/TUI, but it's not a perfect solution and I occasionally bail out to homebrew/linuxbrew.