I'm going to ditto the positive comments. Kudos to the maintainers - not just for the package itself but for growing it. They successfully went from a hacky page with some scripts, to a big giant repository, to multiple repos, to a fully fledged mature best-practices package manager for macOS with all the bells and whistles.

The sign of a great project isn't just that it does one thing well, but that it grows with the needs of the users and engages with them to constantly make something better without falling prey to bloat. And by that measure, Homebrew gets a gold star.