Maybe it won out on servers, but the world is mobile now, and mobile OSes are all about deep integration. Linux has some of it with DBus, and a lot of the cool

Maybe it won out on servers, but the world is mobile now, and mobile OSes are all about deep integration. Linux has some of it with DBus, and a lot of the coolest stuff is based on it, or some other standardized rich shared daemon like PipeWire, which is about as close as Linux can get to having a feature rich OS, since the kernel devs would never go for making it truly like Windows and all monolithic. The slower you iterate, the less you break, and the more focus you can have on app development rather than low level tool development. The time you waste on not quite that great stale APIs seems to be offset by the time you save not constantly fixing stuff. I suspect that the larger an app gets, the more it benefits from stability, because a million line app is probably going to have more code that nobody has needed to touch for 8 years