It's fascinating that Linux now has the same problem as Windows
I mean Windows has a rather good kernel team, they actually work on making their kernel faster and more secure every day. The reason why people who dislike Windows dislike Windows is the userspace. It's all that crappy software which spies on you or prints PDF-files differently to how it displays them: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/11896203/
Now we have the same on Linux. There is a team which tries to make the kernel faster and more secure, but there are also teams who make the userspace more complex, buggy, harder to fix and insecure. Often even by doing exactly what Microsoft did wrong 20 years ago, like binary log files and highly opaque service management.