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Here I stopped reading. This can't be more then a salty bullshit post with nothing than unfair assumptions.
The only one that really might have some merit is the argument about portability.
Small communities have a hard time staying up to date. X11 was ported decades ago, when non Linux OSes had more mind share and commercial backing. I doubt anyone could port X11 if that was the new thing mainly developed on Linux today.