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For me as a developer, the OS stopped to matter when I moved away from C and C++ back into languages with richer runtimes and libraries.

I also started to see POSIX as the extended C runtime that didn't make it into the ANSI C standard.

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Interestingly, this argument was also examined in a recent conference [1] and the same conclusions are drawn. Specifically: applications are using high-level frameworks more (and POSIX less) which use platform-specific extensions, ioctl dominates, and new (disjoint) abstractions are introduced by the major OS platforms.

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2901318.2901350

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