They mean that they have an overall positive opinion of Homebrew, more than “not bad” but less than “amazing”.

As someone who would readily say that Homebrew is pretty great, this is exactly how I feel about Homebrew.

For example people do not use homebrew to install python3 on a fresh install of mac os and get a python that spews a bunch of messages to stderr about the version of libc6.so and cannot speak TLS.

It only upgrades PostgreSQL 3 major versions up alongside without asking.

Think this issue was fixed a few years ago

Not sure I agree, when I use brew it still regularly updates random unconnected crap through multiple major releases. And of course it takes ages doing so

I was referring to your postgresql example, those became rudimentary @versioned packages

It does what it says on the tin and installs the plethora of software available on homebrew with a simple command, which is pretty great

It's plenty solid, and there's a good library of packages on there. It's a package manager, doesn't take more than that.