[phendrenad2]

"The" Linux Desktop ecosystem can't do anything. It's reached an equilibrium between people who want Linux to become popular by changing, and people who want Linux to become popular by changing users (into Linux command-line experts).

However, that doesn't stop a group of people from the first group from breaking away and creating their own stack. It's been attempted many times before (etoile, elementary, and in fact kde/gnome started out this way), but they never gain sufficient momentum and crash back into obscurity (etoile, elementary) or mainstream compromises (kde, gnome).