Ahmed made a COSMIC image, tulip's had Zirconium with niri.
The nice thing about this is the #freedesktop sdk neutral. It's just the desktop base image to choose.
Then instead of "why are you inventing a distro" it's like who cares, your user experience is in your config. You get all the benefits of having a distro but you share the maintenance upstream. Every "Joe's own distro" would be part of the testing pool.
Think of the diversity of setups!