No, because in this case, there's a chevy and a chevy factory, and someone wanted everything changed to produce fords instead, because hell, ford sounds nicer.

Now, if they wanted it changed to produce lamborghini instead, the situation would be different.

This might be the stupidest car analogy yet, but the point still holds.
(I've mentioned two other package managers, and there are others, which are in different ways superior to both the choices currently on the table, but switching from .deb to rpm is just plain stupid)

It's irrelevant what you, I or other people are fans of, you have to be able to argue solely based on technical merit, otherwise you're in the wrong business.