Many of the apps are designed to the conventions of the various desktop environments on Linux (or Windows, in case of Wine), and feel most at home in one of the

Many of the apps are designed to the conventions of the various desktop environments on Linux (or Windows, in case of Wine), and feel most at home in one of them. Without additional effort to e.g. implement D-Bus and XDG portals, having a Qt or GTK app run will mean those apps open File Open/Save dialogs that are not the native Haiku ones. In the end it will be a fractured feel as well. I hear what you're saying and I do understand the point you're trying to make. However, I think it's interesting to point out just how app-centric systems have become, with many apps even shipping essentially their own unique HIG and look and feel. If you look at Haiku's competitors, 10 years ago they were all much more editorialized with a strong sense of what a proper, native app for them should look like. And despite all having more such native apps than Haiku has now, the trends have - at least for the time being - pulled away from that. If Haiku gets more popular it'll similarly become subject to simply running the most popular software.