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The Fedora changes are bikeshedding. They start with wanting to change something, and then find a justification. Why not just put all the executables files in /Program Files/?

All this to save a few bytes in $PATH, to avoid problems with systemd, and to avoid fixing udev.

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That would break compatibility with a lot of existing scripts, which look for things in /bin, /lib, /usr/bin etc.

There are specific reasons why having a single mount point for all OS-provided binaries is a good idea, for example because maintaining a split that differs across distros and unixes is a maintenance nightmare. The main counterargument -- that it is desirable to have a minimally functional system without /usr mounted -- has been obsolete for years.

why not put all .txt files in /txt? we have .../man for man pages, .../lib for libs, .../src or source and .../include for C includes after all.

I know, I know! Why not let the extension indicate which package a file belongs to? Then we could have /txt/readme.GTK

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