>Language specific package manager is exactly what encourage the exponential explosion of packages leading to dependency hell (and lead to major security concerns).

Sounds like you're biased.

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gnome-shell/

gnome-shell > accountsservice > shadow > pam > systemd-libs > xz > bash > readline > ncurses > gcc-libs > glibc

and I didn't even try finding the longest chain...