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Reliable and reproducible are two problems already solved with the solutions I provided.
So yes those are things that can do similar functions and in the case of os-tree based things btrfs is used heavily.
But you’re still missing the point.
It sounds like you’re saying people are needlessly trying to be complicated for no reasons. That we have btrfs & zfs so anything else is pointless.
That’s a lot like saying we have roofs so a roof in Florida should be the same as a roof in Siberia. Anything else is needlessly complicated.
There’s a lot of nuance missing there. Sure we have different technologies that can do similar things. There’s also reasons why someone would use one over the other.