@cas Oh, thxthx for the careful response! 
So first of all, I did not say or imply that complexity is a completely or even a net negative thing. After all, thereās a reason weāre all in the FOSS communities in some form or another, and itās how it allows anyone to participate in diverse ways of achieving similar goals, then finding common ground and sharing efforts, as you mention with pmOS. Very irregularly, rather chaotically (for better! or worse!), but it does happen. The main problems I got are with the margin of improvement for cooperation (via standardization, shared codebases and stacks, etc), as well with how the politics behind it all are translated into choice complexity for the newcomer ā and thus liability that they ideally shouldnāt have. Opinionated projects are very much positive if not inevitable (otherwise youāre stuck with the contradictory goals of #neutrality and #universality, potentially grinding things to a halt or forcing to change course), and Iām not gonna nod along the ājust do a single projectā fallacy. Itās just that I think the community should accept and embrace collaboration, tradeoffs and consensus when it makes sense⦠so itās good to know that thereās already some momentum towards that!
ā¦hopefully everyone will indeed do their best. I know how discouragement and conflict can arise even between well-meaning parts (communication, ideals, personal livesā¦), let alone when not everyoneās on the same page (
). But yeah, if thatās the case I do believe governance and results will follow and be much more empowering than just handing over that responsibility to Google or some other BDFL instead.
(P.S.: yeah I know the Linux stack consensus isnāt absolute, the āsomewhatā wasnāt just about fd.o!
)