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by woodruffw 684 days ago
I don’t really understand what the problem you’re referring to is: /usr/local is explicitly the non-OS software hierarchy, which is why Homebrew used it. When Apple Silicon came out, the prefix was changed as part of allowing native and Rosetta-driven Homebrew installations to co-exist. There’s no nefarious reasoning behind it.

Edit: a thread with a bit of the history can be found here[1].

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177