I find that MacPorts is a better citizen of my laptop, but the mindshare of homebrew means that brew will have both more packages and more up to date packages.
And getting the tools team at work to vend both brew and macports seems malicious so I just suck it up there.
I don’t use homebrew (for many of the reasons found in the comments here and more) but this is why I do visit their repo[1] for a “formula” whenever I need something macports or pkgsrc can’t supply me.
I think that's the key, MacPorts stays in its lane. I also like the variant mechanism. It makes it easy (much like OpenBSD flavors) to get what I want out of it.
And getting the tools team at work to vend both brew and macports seems malicious so I just suck it up there.