Is it? On the Linux desktop there haven't been any new desktop apps for well over a decade (up to maybe Krita and the Blender redesign). Inkscape has been 20 ye

Is it? On the Linux desktop there haven't been any new desktop apps for well over a decade (up to maybe Krita and the Blender redesign). Inkscape has been 20 years in the making and just released 1.0. These apps are basically developed against the X Windows API from 1983 or so. So for which hypothetical apps exactly we do need these enormous container formats isn't clear at all. It's not that the existing desktops apps like Libre/OpenOffice (also from late 1980s/early 1990s) have grand plans for new components, or run better all of a sudden. Is it browser-/Electron-based apps that need constant updates? Then the developers really should consider their choices; why would I download a webapp along with a whole browser runtime repeatedly rather than simply run the app from their website, especially when the target environment is also sandboxed like a browser? That simply doesn't make sense. At a certain point, after over 25 years of attempting to shoehorn the web into an app delivery platform, things get absurd. It's true though that shared libs have caused more trouble than worth, and are the root of this mess. But the solution is simply to not use them and just ship statically linked binaries instead rather than put a layer of abstraction over them. Even on DOS/Windows back in the day users were able to download an .EXE.