Bingo

I have never heard of this before now

Yes, according to the article, anyway. That seems to be the speculation at the moment.

Don’t go driving a car until you have a masters in mechanical engineering

Yeah, they’ve been apparently working on its replacement for quite some time, so the “news” of its retirement actually comes because of the discovery of its replacement and the chatter around it. The linked article isn’t an official announcement of YaST’s death, it’s just speculation. But it’s very credible speculation.

Overall, I see this as a good move. YaST was dated and sluggish. I hated having to use it. Yes, it will make SuSE feel different now, but sometimes change is good.

Looks neat

It’s kind of slow to start, though. Coming from a Bash background, it gets tiresome.

Came here to say this. My daily driver is nushell in Microsoft terminal.

This is fine

Yeah, this article came across as if written by a complete beginner. They mention having their WordPress hacked, but failed to admit it was because they didn’t upgrade the install.