That happens a lot in Linux world since people design software in extremely limited way in the name of simplicity and "Unix philosophy" which limits their compo

That happens a lot in Linux world since people design software in extremely limited way in the name of simplicity and "Unix philosophy" which limits their composability. So only interfaces became limited to what's available at that moment and the limited set of Unix software abstractions. Those abstractions are also made extremely use case specific even though there are opportunities to unifiy them like Android did with Binder, Windows did COM and dotnet. Of course technical difficulties of designing efficient and long-term surviving interfaces also play a role. There are too many hobbyists in the Linux desktop world and too few professionals who also have to work with hobbyists. Many contributions to Linux desktop happen when people are studying and then they leave. This creates disincentives to design long-term systems because they take too long and they are a slog to design and keep up-to-date.