Well, the Linux community does have a long history of technical decisions that later ended up biting them in the ass. HALd was retired just as it was enthusiast

Well, the Linux community does have a long history of technical decisions that later ended up biting them in the ass. HALd was retired just as it was enthusiastically adopted, as it was widely deemed an "unmaintainable mess", despite its code size being only a fraction of systemd's. There was controversy around devfsd before udev replaced it. Debian's decision to adopt libav might have made sense initially, what with it speeding up development, but it later became a detriment very quickly. The ffmpeg deprecation disclaimer was also a very ignorant move. Finally, at the end of the day, most OEMs ship Windows. I think you're overestimating the distros a fair bit. Wide consensus doesn't always mean quality.