Well, we have the administrative side of it down more or less. We have LTS releases, deprecation policies, even sometimes rudimentary automation to port old co

Well, we have the administrative side of it down more or less. We have LTS releases, deprecation policies, even sometimes rudimentary automation to port old configuration and tools to match the new tooling. This part doesn't scare me. The part that does scare me is that we'd need something like a task force that will have enough authority to compel all involved parties to follow their design as well as to have a good design in the first place. Standardization is a powerful tool that enables significant advances in the industry that any individual player cannot accomplish on their own, and would be very beneficial to the most widely used operating system on the planet. But making useful standards is hard. Even harder in the presence of players who might want to achieve exclusivity for their product by obstructing standardization process. The later would've been my greatest fear.