Linux

They made an init system called systemd, and it worked way better than anything prior.

Then they realised that to have a functional and maintainable system, you need a bunch of other system level tooling to be in and around about the same layer as the unit system (time sync, base network, disk mounting, etc.). All of these other things got spun off as daemon projects, for example "systemd-timesyncd". And all got good and consistent command line tooling that made things relatively convenient.

The downside is now power-users saw systems taking over their computer and "violating the Unix philosophy". I would argue that at some level, it doesn't. They've made a suite of relatively independent tools all part of the same group with the purpose of managing the system. It gets things running, it gets users logged in and out, it tells you what when wrong, and it will restart things if it can. System management, do one thing and do it well.

I think the fact is that managing a modern system in a way that "just works" is complicated challenge. Many people either haven't run Ubuntu 9, and done a software update, or have repressed a lot of those memories.

Is it perfect: no. Is it the best model we have so far: I would say so.