@stefano

I think your article sums up precisely what the majority of the community feels.

The problem is not the community itself, the problem is that over time large entities have been created, see Red Hat, Gnome, Wayland, Freedesktop and the like, which have begun to dictate what the "standard" is in a world that until recently was characterized precisely by the diversity of choice.

Diversity that is still there, yes, but if you look with a magnifying glass you will notice that certain projects and ideas have been brought forward to avoid this, note the beloved SystemD, which has created dependencies that have already become hard dependecies, see Gnome; de ​​facto violating interoperability.

And secondly, most communities have been infiltrated by politics by certain individuals, in fact bringing divisiveness and not the rationality and comparison that have always been there, see people violently thrown out of an organization (Free Desktop) just because they dared to criticize the politicized attitude within a project, Xorg/X11, which also for years had hundreds of bugfixes consciously ignored (see the scandal of the fork XLibre/Xserver)

BSD has the advantage that there is no corporation that dictates and imposes what to do and what to follow to all the other BSDs.