"We're seeing any sort of competition, or even just dissent, being highly discouraged, suppressed, or even prevented wherever possible."
Could you please elaborate on this point?
Could you please elaborate on this point?
Things tend to be particularly bad when it comes to systemd, though. It isn't unusual to see censorship occur, either in the form of unjustifiable downmodding, comment deletion, or even the banning of participants, depending on the venue. We also are seeing it become increasingly difficult for Debian users, for example, to opt out of using systemd, or to easily switch to an alternative init system.
Instead of people with different preferences or interests working together, or even working independently, we're more often seeing one group of people quench the ability of the competing groups to participate or to even have choice. When discussion is stifled, and choice is taken away, the outcome will likely never be positive.
But comparing it with systemd is completely unreasonable. When a huge group of people complained about HTTP/2, it become an optional standard, and HTTP/1.1 is officially the only web standard capable of satisfying a big number of use-cases. No choice is being taken away, it's just a bad standard that is being pushed at server maintainers.