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by int_19h 2582 days ago
The simple reason is that everybody is forced to deal with it. So you either like the way it works, or you dislike it, but there's no real option to just ignore it in Linux land anymore. For a lot of people, that means that their favorite distro suddenly works in a different way.

This happens every time you significantly change something that people use and have existing workflows for, regardless of whether your change is beneficial on the whole.