You're conflating their jobs quite a bit, here. Torvalds is the project lead of Linux, whereas Jobs was the chief executive officer of Apple. There were almost

You're conflating their jobs quite a bit, here. Torvalds is the project lead of Linux, whereas Jobs was the chief executive officer of Apple. There were almost certainly even meaner people than Linus internally pushing for highly opinionated macOS changes; we just never saw them. Jobs' legacy is more lambasted for his lack of technical acumen and interpersonal frustration. Guys like Woz would make a particularly bad replacement for Torvalds, because while he was super talented, Woz was also a pushover who had to leave Apple after being insulted hundreds of times by Jobs, who had almost no valuable technical know-how. Torvalds will never make his mistake, and Linux has long been better off ignoring the Tannenbaum types.