It seems to me that distros are in the right position to nudge this in the right direction. For example, Fedora did the /usr merge, moved to systemd, wayland, e

It seems to me that distros are in the right position to nudge this in the right direction. For example, Fedora did the /usr merge, moved to systemd, wayland, etc. The great dotfile cleanup would probably work by patching all packaged software to do config files the right way, plus sending the patches upstream. Then in a few release cycles this would be more or less solved.