But it's not coherent, far from it: it is often broken by various parties involved because there is no architecture and there are heterogenous interests at play

But it's not coherent, far from it: it is often broken by various parties involved because there is no architecture and there are heterogenous interests at play. Compared to a FreeBSD or a SmartOS system, architecturally, it barely works, and it's rickety and shoddy.