I feel like Apple has generally done a good job containing churn to the superficial parts of the OS. That said, I wish the Linux/BSD mindshare had chosen to invest its desktop efforts into creating a rock solid OpenStep implementation.

Had GNUStep or something like it been able to marshal the resources that have been poured into multiple rewrites of Gnome & KDE, I think we’d have the basis for the low-churn system we wish Apple had provided us.

Maybe if someone like this had come along 20 years ago things would be different https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace