I get and agree with the capitalist attack angle. The AI slop code is everywhere, so I don't think that's necessarily unique. There's very few projects with the backbone to say that slop coders will be perma banned from the repos or putting in place more strict controls on contributors.

You highlighted my main problem in the middle though. Lots of Linux users get upset that things are moving to Flatpak instead of keeping to native packages, which makes things significantly easier for developers to not have to worry about the differences in multiple distros. Developers are moving to Wayland because they're tired of carrying decades of technical debt that isn't worth it to untangle. For every move like this, there's users who complain that their 'choice' is being taken away when they in reality contribute nothing at all to the ecosystem aside from running it on their computer.

Many of these complaints and efforts are championed by the fascists in the community too, like the Xorg fork, the HHD developer kicked off the Bazzite team for being a transphobe and the CachyOS team refusing to work with Bazzite due to that "drama", the the Hyprland dev and their dislike of desktop environments, Lunduke and his ilk, the pedophile Stallman evangelists, etc. The list is endless. And not that we should let them 'win' and refuse to do good things because they also want it, but it makes me question how much of it is RETVRN type shit but in relation to computers.

That's why I don't care at all when developers say stuff like Jorge Castro and go "of course this is happening, deal with it", because they are doing things that makes their lives easier and I imagine they also don't want to deal with these same people who insist on sticking to convention and blocking any sort of progress. I strongly appreciate what the Ublue team has done (including Jorge with Bluefin) to make Linux actually usable for the average person and not a nightmare of following guides to find the right package for your very specific problem.

All this makes it very difficult to separate out the legitimate criticisms you've brought vs. the nonsense.