Something I don't see mentioned often is that Red Hat has a conflict of interest: their money comes from selling support contracts. Ergo, it's not in their inte

Something I don't see mentioned often is that Red Hat has a conflict of interest: their money comes from selling support contracts. Ergo, it's not in their interest to make systems easy to understand. I think this coupled with their outsized influence goes a long way towards explaining why modern Linux is so opaque and hard to use - they seem to go out of their way to render obsolete the sysadmin heuristics that serve one well on any other Unix system.