This kind of attitude, that there is only one "right" way to do it, and any other method is disgusting, is why there are at least three different, incompatible, audio subsystems for Linux. Every time a self-proclaimed expert on audio decides that the current most popular implementation is wrong, they just start writing (and leave incomplete) a different one.

This same jousting over technical windmills happens in other userspace elements of Linux. Linus, for better or worse, keeps a tight rein on what's allowed in the kernel, but when it comes to audio, window management, display, UX, everything is a shitshow of mixed metaphors and dysfunctional interoperability.