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As for switching to Arch "or worse", we have more AUR packages than Debian has packages, period. The supposed wealth of having sheer quantity of package numbers? Firmly on our side. And unlike Debian we don't cheat by splitting every software project into 6+ different subpackages, thereby padding out their package count with stuff that isn't distinctive.
(Debian does this due to policy demanding the default install of a program not include development headers or docs, and further splitting many packges to enable minimal disk usage for unused features.)
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Sorry, worse as in distros with even fewer packages than Arch / Debian / Void. I kind of like splitting -dev, because of space, but it might not matter that much in a live squashfs. Anyway, I'll try Atrix one of these days, to see if one can reasonably well use runit / s6 and avoid the... other init system.
Thanks for all the info. I'm not sure if the install script is documented officially (I tried backporting to a PPA a long time ago when I still believed in Ubuntu), but if not, this is very useful.