[pessimizer]

Some corporate entity will just take it over and Linux will just be another piece of software constantly trying to figure out ways to rob you.

Fragmentation, though ugly and inconvenient, works as a defense. systemd, along with all of the other goofy all-encompassing subsystems that were inflicted on Linux over one hot decade from Red Hat, was obviously a ploy to do the above. The jury is still out as to whether it will be successful.

[wolvesechoes]

But I believe there is a degree of fragmentation. If the fragmentation would look like this that we have, for example, just Debian, Arch and Fedora, we would still have a choice and escape hatches, and I wouldn't complain, even if it would be less effective than single distro.