Haha, let’s not throw the baby with the bathwater though. Unix philosophy relies on good API between subsystems and enables the user to combine them as they see fit. The problem is that the interfaces are getting a bit rusty (no pun).
macOS is totalitarian as UNIX is libertarian if I may have some fun with analogies. No top down direction but individualism is encouraged. There is something to be said about that! It’s a test bench for super cool ideas - e.g. suckless tools.