One of the problems of open source is top down imposition by distros. Perhaps software should be developed with a certain regard to the preferences of the userb

One of the problems of open source is top down imposition by distros. Perhaps software should be developed with a certain regard to the preferences of the userbase? I suspect software not liked by its users is not going to be very successful in the marketplace. Aside: Gnome is far worse than KDE. systemd is an improvement on what was there previously, albeit not the only choice. I have enough experience with X to know how difficult it was to work with, a lot there needed to go. However, Wayland is too minimal, we're going to have lots of unnecessary differences between Gnome-wayland, KDE-wayland, and wlroots-wayland thanks to wayland's bad focus. Speaking of this, want to look at stuff that held back Linux? Maybe have some words for people who prioritized irrelevant features over basic support for remote work.