Transient situations are almost permanent in Linux land. This has been a problem for a long time and I don't see a solution coming in the near future. But maybe I'm wrong (I hope so!).
- Many years worth of different control panels.
- Little consistency with respect to toolkits in general.
- Fractional scaling issues in applications using older toolkits (e.g., open up the policy editor and notice the blurry fonts). Microsoft is actually giving up here and has been experimenting with ML-based scaling for old applications (an approach I expect we'll eventually see in Linux as well).
Apple handles this by breaking compatibility every so often, forcing old software out of the picture.
Example: all the redshift applications and extensions for lowering the screen brightness.