Dumb question. Why make another OS?
Therefore, it is sensible that other approaches are being considered.
This is a unix-like, and none of those are inherit to unix/derivatives; there are small unixen, there are microkernel unixen, containers are popular, and whatever security model you want, someone has hacked it onto an existing unix-family OS.
GNU Hurd on drivers, you can use the ones from GNU/Linux I think. On global namespaces, I'd say Plan9/9front it's Unix 2.0.