It's pretty dumb (your words if you don't like them) not to understand (your words if you don't like them) that, how, and why, different distributions "has to be different". Debian is not Arch or Nix. A tractor is not a race car is not a submarine, even though they are all vehicles.

This seems like a very basic concept for anyone purporting to do any sort of engineering or designing in any field.

If it were me, I would not be so eager to advertize my failure to understsnd such basics, let alone presume to call anyone else pretty dumb.