Well, hang on there. I'm not here to become Mr. Homebrew Defender, but saying 'this project has 400 pull requests, that's a problem' isn't fair at all. The majority of those pull requests represent users updating formulas to new versions of things, or adding new formulas, not fixing problems that prevent things from compiling.
Like any solution, particularly a 100% opensource solution, it's not perfect, but it does do the job, the majority of the time. YMMV, but I have 24 Homebrew formulas installed and have had zero problems with any of them.
I think the point was more that in comparison to the package systems deployed for Fedora or Ubuntu or OpenSUSE (also "100% open source"), Homebrew looks, well, pathetically primitive. Seriously, look at the way launchpad or koji or OBS work sometime.
Sorry, I use and love homebrew, I'm just saying I understand the parents issue with the lack of a compiled binary package manager for OSX. Arguably I can't see anything that is preventing one from being created though. Perhaps compile-on-demand is just the way of the future.
Like any solution, particularly a 100% opensource solution, it's not perfect, but it does do the job, the majority of the time. YMMV, but I have 24 Homebrew formulas installed and have had zero problems with any of them.