Linux kernel today is more complicated than 25 years ago. Is it conspiracy or necessity? In a modern product engineering process we in fact fight the increasin

Linux kernel today is more complicated than 25 years ago. Is it conspiracy or necessity? In a modern product engineering process we in fact fight the increasing complexity by selecting for the implementation only features that have the biggest business impact. That code is created because someone is going to use it to address some user need, not to confuse a potential reader. Nobody thinks at the moment of the roadmap planning about harming free software, this idea is just absurd.