Your main critic doesn't really hold much water since distros and the kernel is pretty much the only "designers" of Linux. Wayland is part of freedesktop.org f

Your main critic doesn't really hold much water since distros and the kernel is pretty much the only "designers" of Linux. Wayland is part of freedesktop.org for instance. Systemd would be an exception I would admit, but there doesn't seem to be much interest from the BSD to port or attempt to use the systemd fork or openrc. OpenBSD does have interesting projects, but why would a game needs their own audio server. Not only that but openbsd isn't exactly releasing big new innovations a cross the board, but usually small security focused or KISS versions of something. Stability is also what you make of it, while it's true that BSD probably have a higher uptime than say fedora rawhide, it's selection of software and not breaking them is a whole other thing.