But this is Hacker News where people who build things hang out. If you are fine with the state of the world and are not involved in advancing it, good for you, you can close this discussion. But many people around here are building the next things. And in that context it makes sense to think about what's the future and what's not.
You sound like every other person responsible for the rampant NIHism in Linux and the reason why the "year of the Linux desktop" is in the year 6002 at this rate.