[banachtarski]

I'd agree that LSP has been a huge boon to the ecosystem. Spacemacs I feel has had the opposite effect. It hasn't had an "official" release since Jan 2018, and there are TONS of lame and fixed bugs that persist in the mainline. I actively recommend people NOT to use spacemacs because of how broken the release process is. It really feels like the maintainer(s) simply does not have the time to devote and it has vastly outgrown what I think is reasonable.

After quitting spacemacs, it was refreshing. I do not believe a "meta package" system is correct. Each individual maintainer should be able to update and release their plugins with an independent cadence. Imagine if VSCode extension releases were all gated by a single point of failure... Nobody would use it (and rightfully so).

[didibus]

Spacemacs isn't a meta-package. Its just a config file and some of its own packages. All package it uses get updated through melpa at their own independent cadence.

I'd recommend just switching to the develop branch. Honestly they should just make it master.