I don’t distro hop but I do scout distros in VMs.
It’s a great way to window shop all the creative ways an OS can be set up and if I like something i’ll usually add it to my own distro. I’m on Fedora and the PS1 in my .bashrc comes from Debian for example.
Actually hopping would be a lot more immersive though.
On package management I think PatPlusLinux said it best…