> Desktop isn't unified (X11 or Wayland), libraries are not unified, the drivers/sound system isnt unified. Its basically a bunch of different flavors with issues that you are stuck with, locked in with.

Why would it be unified? It's mostly a bazaar of software written by different people to scratch their own itches.

> Redhat has the same issue, killing off centos community releases for a streamed os platform

CentOS Stream is no different than enabling the debian-updates repository in Debian. Your system won't suddenly just start pulling in breaking changes.