The terminal motd tells you exactly how to use the packages involved when you open it.

Just about everyone who has made meaningful contributions to Bluefin are tinkerers. The entire stack is designed to tinker and customize.

It’s one command in Bluefin, same as everything else.

brew install btop vim

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/command-line/#installing-applications

I feel like they don’t take the time to think things through and throw together. Instead, they throw together a new thing to address the shortcomings of the previous five things.

This is a weird statement it’s designed this way on purpose. You seem to be looking for “one package manager to rule them all” in a world that’s purposely splitting things up.

You can always just get the status updates directly from the project: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/a-brighter-future-for-bazzite/11575