How would business connections work? And it was only problematic on some systems, and only for a while

the audio situation before it was a total fucking disaster lol. The only real f up was no low latency really which pipewire now fixes apparently

And systemd consolidated and fixed everything too

Credit where credit is due. Writing a systemd script was so much easier than initd and it resolved so many race conditions and such

People just don't like change. It's the same when Wayland. People are pretending like x11 wasn't problematic 😂

The distros didn't choose this stuff because of business connections lol. And I'd love to see what red hat offered other distros to cause them to switch(I'm sure you have receipts)

Ubuntu even had upstart and even they dropped it eventually

I'm a user for about 20 years.

I must be lucky. I had no issues with pulseaudio. In fact I thought it was so wonderful how you could hear multiple applications at the same time!

I thought gnome 3 was really cool as well. I didn't use it as long as I did 2, but that's because I found out about tiling window management (and later scrolling window management). But I liked the design of Gnome 3, not sure why. Felt modern, like a bold step in a modern direction. 😊

Systemd I just have no feelings about. I'm not well-read about the drama or how or why it's a badly designed system. I don't write my own units or whatever. I just start/enable and stop services. 😅

But these were just examples. Maybe you mean more stuff have been bad coming from Redhat.