[mcpackieh]

Zypper has excellent dependency resolution, it hasn't given me any trouble. DNF is just as good, from what I hear. Apt and yum are an earlier generation of package manager, and I've seem them get themselves into jams on more than one occasion so I understand what you're saying and can sympathize with your perspective, but those shortcomings aren't inherent to the premise of traditional package management.

I use AppImage for the sort of software that won't get packaged (proprietary or obscure) and zypper for pretty much everything else (excepting a few programs I build myself due to reasons.)