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Canonical patronizingly forcing a tool/workflow onto users against their explicit and unequivocal rejection of it?
That's not what the articles says or implies at all. The article only refers to another article with a click bait headline. The article article summarizes Canonical stance like this:
And to be clear, including a tool or default workflow is MILES away from patronizingly forcing it on to users. It's just the way that most distros that aren't Linux From Scratch work.
Problem is, Ubuntu's track record with projects like Upstart, Unity, Mir, Snap, Netplan, Amazon integration, the Rust coreutils rewrite, etc. makes the "only cautiously and where it truly makes sense" promise seem rather hollow.
Yes, distros make different choices about the systems they want to use. That's the way distro work. If you don't like it, choose a different flavor of ubuntu or a different distro altogether. Nobody's being forced to do anything they don't want here. What's the alternative? Everybody just does everything exact the way some armchair developers or Arch cultists have decided is the best way for them? No thanks.
Yes. And many users have many times done exactly that.
But I've BEEN there for the bitter, insulting interviews where Shuttleworth STILL moans and complains that Unity was the future and users were too thick to accept his vision. After they realized too many people were switching back to Gnome, they decided to put a stop to that by making Unity the only default installed DE and providing no further support. This is a company run by a man who by all accounts is a petty dictator who still doesn't get it.
I already left Ubuntu. That doesn't mean I don't get to call them out for being heavy handed and pigheaded. Just because something is open source and free does not make it immune to criticism. Just like I am free to go to another distro, Ubuntu's developers are free to ignore my comments.