It definitely closed many gaps. Most servers, supercomputers, embedded devices, routers, smartphones, smart tv's... depend on free software one way or another.

It definitely closed many gaps. Most servers, supercomputers, embedded devices, routers, smartphones, smart tv's... depend on free software one way or another. A few software markets have been completely dominated by FLOSS: system software, compilers, lexers, shells, kernels, codecs, programming languages, arduino-like tools... On the professional market, just look at what blender became. Other examples for end users: OBS is probably the most used broadcast software available. People ignore that most people don't need the features Sound Forge and Audacity has probably many more users. Other examples in this same category: VLC, Handbrake, Inkscape, 7-zip, Calibre, Krita... Even on the places where it is not a leader, it is sometimes good enough. I can totally easily edit a video using kdenlive; record, edit and master a music using Audour; compose a scene using Natron; compose music using MuseScore; edit 3d models using Wings3D; design an environment using SweetHome3D; render using many of the top-notch state-of-art FLOSS renders like Luxrender or whatever comes with Blender these days. Desktop software is much more beautiful, intuitive and stable than before. And it doesn't try to milk you for money, attention or personal data. Flatpaks, AppImages and snaps finally make it possible for users of the most popular distros to use the same software, the same version, working the same way regardless of the distro. Now, go back a few years. The situation was entirely different. You could do nothing of what was described using only FLOSS if you go back enough. Or, you could, but it would be complicated and unstable. This is no longer the case. Of course there are still gaps, but many have been closed over the years and most remaining ones are slowly closing.