Comment by Joel_Mckay

Copy Microsoft backward-compatibility focus, Apples aesthetic choices, and media/game-engine API definitions.

Open desktops are like an architect that keeps moving the bathroom doors in a building under perpetual construction. The ecosystem naturally destroys itself every major release cycle, work put into quality of life improvements is lost, and code smell is so terrible people just abandon the projects after it becomes burdensome.

The mistake people make is trying to reason with people about which groups breaking changes take priority. This is why Cinnamon continues to run desktops on systems with broken GPU drivers, and installed as a fail-back GUI plan when Wayland glitches up.

People need to stop telling new users to follow a 15 step CLI tutorial to bring up a broken distribution Desktop. =3