> ...without any of the modularity and flexibility that Linux is (allegedly) proud of.

Linux seems to have been infiltrated by people who simply don't believe in this anymore, and so we keep getting "modern" "batteries included" integrated monoliths that suck at everything but supposedly make things easier because this new crop of people don't want to have to know about or compare multiple options :(. And like, because for specific use cases the monoliths can have better performance, that gets used as a way to undermine what used to be the unique selling proposition of Linux :(.