We're in a new weird technology landscape where everything is driven by pride and ego and money instead of "what's best for everyone" progress or even stable technological advancement.

Things like Docker and systemd are exactly EEE land grab lock-in plays to redirect "open source" value back towards private entities and unilateral control structures (instead of cross-vendor standards bodies, because standards bodies can't make individuals into billionaires).

How do we as lowly developers with effectively $0 net worth fight companies with billion dollar war chests? Over time, better does win (see: the collapse and accelerating irrelevance of Microsoft), but in the short term it's likely we'll get stuck in another 10 years of platform "dark ages" until we see the light again.