[mcartyem]

You might not be biased. It's hard to ignore Wombat demonstrating context-switching costs that are up to 30 times lower than native Linux.

The status quo of kernels is reminiscent of the status quo of programming languages in the 90s. Where people programmed in faster, static languages and looked down on dynamic ones. I wonder what we will think of monolithic kernels in 50 years from now.

EDIT: A binary injecting itself with multiple code (linkables) might not be bad. It's much like what a macro does to a program. You turn one flag on and the source gets populated with the appropriate code.

It is lack of a dynamic way of injecting it that can bite you. The inability to easily change what was injected.