I would argue that to make a distro that has a wide array of natively packaged up-to-date software in a world of significant (lets say 25% and above) desktop li

I would argue that to make a distro that has a wide array of natively packaged up-to-date software in a world of significant (lets say 25% and above) desktop linux use, then it would be nessecary to discard the level of curation that serves the security that such distros currently uphold. That is to say, if desktop linux use became significant enough to challenge windows and macos, then either the distros will lag out of date packages, not cover widely requested packages, or not have security through curation. Any of these will likely inherently lead to users downloading packages to install manually. I say this as someone that has been running desktop linux on and off since 1992; and I wholeheartedly believe that there's no inherent reason linux desktop use cannot be popular.