Welcome to the bazaar vs cathedral. Linux doesn’t have a cathedral, and none of its benefits/disadvantages either. One “benefit” of the cathedral approach would

Welcome to the bazaar vs cathedral. Linux doesn’t have a cathedral, and none of its benefits/disadvantages either. One “benefit” of the cathedral approach would be dictatorial control of the project, which could share resources better - apple can just say that this framework/whatever is deprecated in the next version and that’s it. Linux’s model is nothing like that.