And that's ok, there's nothing wrong with tools being specialised for certain small markets. It makes them significantly better for those people than being forced to use a ill fitting tool for someone else.
Consolidation and lack of competition makes for a worse experience.
I really don't see what better experience does having all of this https://distrowatch.com/ for those 2% provides.
That is the price to pay when only technical minded users are the target group.