There is no one main point, but mostly, I'd like to mention open build service[1], where you can easily create and provide your own repo (but you also can create there one for debian); openSUSE Tumbleweed almost on bleeding edge for packages, but stable, so you can use latest GNOME/KDE/other; YaST very useful tool to change system settings; and the last to mention - zypper package manager is suffer than apt, but I found it more comfortable to use.
So, mostly I can recommend you to poke with stick LiveISO)
[1]: https://build.opensuse.org/
Is it cover all usage of this word in program naming? Because there it usage seems based on association with a thing naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender
Every complex tool is complicated, like planes with a lot of dashboard, buttons, levers and other stuff. But if you learn it you can achieve awesome success. Nix is same if you use right way after some learn, for example, to create reproducible dev environment.
I have in my router options possibility to choose what Gz should device connect to: for example, old notebook I connect to 2.4 only. Maybe you should enable same for homepod?