You're delusional.

We have established that. It doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Show me evidence that "the Windows kernel" is going away.

That's what my other examples are evidence for. I'm extrapolating a trend I've seen many times before. I could easily be wrong.

I'm not stressing over it though, because I'm happy being a delusional old person.

My dude have you not seen marketshare for Chrome and Safari?

Yes. And it supports my point. Here's the source code to Chrome: https://github.com/chromium/chromium

Here's the license: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/LICENSE

And here's the source code to Safari: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

There's an advertising campaign by the current big players that everyone may as well accept their bullshit, because everyone else does.

I'm telling you, from experience, that putting up with that (current) bullshit is temporary.

They'll innovative new bullshit, of course. That's how the pattern goes.