Opinion: Having some highly opinionated, highly polished distros is an excellent gateway for people to jump aboard. Not everything will be how you want it, sure. But that’s how things are on Windows & MacOS right now.

Immutable distros also help here, preventing goombas like myself from bricking my OS, getting fed up and going back to MS.

Once you learn the basics with guard rails, you can branch out and fix the issues you really care about.