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There is too concentrated which is bad (mac, win), and there is too fragmented which is bad (that is your Linux/distro universe). In other words, in one world, a single entity controls and is responsible for everything, and in another world, no one is. I am not getting into what is worse or better, rather what is usable for an end user.
And then there's the tacit wisdom of the FOSS/Linux world savants: "Uh, if something is not done or not available โ you can just fork it or raise a PR, can't you?" completely escaping the fact that almost the entirety of the users of either world are just end users.