Part of why linux has been a successful long term project is by making decisions conservatively. Other projects like cURL do the same. Incremental improvements over time.

It seems like there is a culture clash with the rust devs who are pushing for changes faster than the long term project maintainers are comfortable with.

It has worked successfully for linux for decades and other FOSS projects like Python have successfully followed the same model.

Whatever the UI in Jurassic Park is was a genuine linux interface at some point so maybe that