I used to be Slackware user. Then I sold my soul to RedHat, then to Debian...
I just installed Slackware after reading your message to see what is new, here are my findings:
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There is still no auto install. I had to manually configure a lot of things using a terminal based fdisk and setup.
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The default package manager, pkgtool, does not have a default way to auto install packages from web (something like yum, apt, up2date). It only installs from your own HDD.
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The other tool for managing packages, slackpkg, was not installed on my system by default.
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The default configuration for X and KDE has problems on my system. I can see the mouse move then nothing.
I can understand why somebody would like to play around with this kind of system as a fun/entertainment/puzzle solving in their free time. On the other hand, if you plan to run some kind of microservices architecture on this, then I wish you best of luck finding a new job once you are fired.
Come to the Debian side, it's all unicorns and rainbows here 🥳🦄