> If you don't want other developers to make decisions for you, you're stuck writing all the software you want to use yourself. I suspect this of being as rece

> If you don't want other developers to make decisions for you, you're stuck writing all the software you want to use yourself. I suspect this of being as recent an attitude as "no, it's fine that a desktop chat client should take up nearly 4 GB doing absolutely nothing, memory is made to be used". There are enough of us who lived through the days when, no, developers didn't need to make certain decisions for us on the Linux desktop. It wasn't a perfect time but it did exist — as recently as ten years to fifteen years ago in the days of GTK+2 and KDE 3. Again, it wasn't perfect, but those days contradict your assertion. People shouldn't have their opinions discounted because they're no longer in vogue.