It's absolutely on purpose. But the tradeoff is Linux has become a really great server OS (because the kernel team can quickly refactor flawed code), but a poor

It's absolutely on purpose. But the tradeoff is Linux has become a really great server OS (because the kernel team can quickly refactor flawed code), but a poor desktop OS (because drivers are harder to ship than on Windows). This tradeoff isn't really well-known or debated in the Linux community, it just kind of exists.