@BrodieOnLinux I find it a little odd to actually remove something like that. The unixoid sphere has long been one of choice, I can choose my distro, my window manager, my shell, on some systems I can even choose my init (*cough* Gentoo). Every other distro wouldn't want to "have the balls" to restrict the users' choice. RHEL as part of offering full commercial support for everything contained in the base system, understandably, is slimmed down (sometimes too much IMHO). So yeah, AssHat doesn't want to provide X11 support anymore because it's effort. Every other distro should absolutely stick to providing – at least packaging – both. Why would they even remove a package that hasn't changed its build system in ages, and has a reasonable Changelog.… unless they are guaranteeing you to fix every bug you encounter (like RHEL).

This isn't about showing strength or progression. It's just captialism.