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Well, it's up to you to decide if advantages of a distro are more significant to you then disadvantages.
I would argue that the best part about void is not actually runit and xbps, but minimalist dependencies.
I wouldn't care about unofficial status of hyprland package, since it is unofficial in most distros.
And about the lack of some software. There is a thing, called xdeb, that allows you to automatically convert any deb package to xbps package (with correct dependencies). You can even automatically install them from any deb repository via xdeb-install tool.