[vezzy-fnord]

There's nothing about loose coupling that implies poor UX. It's more about seamless interchangeability of components, which if you don't care about, will make no difference to you.

Trying to impose an ad-hoc diktat in the Linux community where you insist that X shall be the one true DE, Y shall be the single package manager and Z the service manager, does nothing but piss off people who actually care about Linux, and will do nothing to bring about the Year of the Linux Desktop, because most end users simply take whatever OEMs ship.

But there's a more destructive thing. By doing this, you're sending out a message: "Fuck experimentation. Fuck academic research. There is only one path and one dogma."

Now, if it was just about having de facto defaults, that's tolerable. The issue is that deep-seated standards and dependency chains are being created in the process, where someone who researches and implements a formidable alternative to a piece of system software will have to go through a ton of unnecessary and superfluous hoops just to stand a fighting chance, all because of the narcissism and egos of a bunch of people who thought that they could reinvent the world, and this time they'd get it right, dammit.