bootstraps itself in less than a minute. produces statically linked binaries. makes up the core foundation of many of todays most innovative programming languages, and everyone who uses it has a blast. but yeah I guess working with heavy duty infrastructure that can't feasibly be forked has its merits.
not that chez would be particularly easy to maintain, but I already spend a good deal of free time studying the source just because its one of the coolest code bases I've ever seen (much like guix, except a totally different philosophy), and i'm eager to learn the concepts. I'll take a 70k LoC over a million+ any day.