What features are you referring to?
You answered this question in the reply already.
Are you one of those with a raging hateboner towards everything immutable? I ask this as I don’t see any reason to bring this up in the first place.
I meant that I support this distro as long as it’s not immutable because I’m an opponent of immutability on the desktop. If they’re also making other kinds of systems, immutability may be beneficial there.
When people oppose innovation for whatever reason, it always reminds me of Henry Ford’s famous quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
Sometimes innovation is bad or rushed (such as removal of X11 on Fedora). Often only people with the newest hardware can benefit from it anyways. They don’t care about regular users making the products worse for them which is basically egoism. There is a reason for proprietary products having legacy support after all.
It’s a very very weird view on this topic. I’m really not a fan of the “we can’t do anything so let’s sit and wait until everything gets worse” philosophy. I’d even recommend banning supporters of it everywhere in the FOSS world.
systemd is pretty bad but it was accepted because it was the best thing available at the time for the purpose and the community needed a standard. Now times are different.
Immutability is a big change that comes with its own issues. It makes a lot of sense in the equipment control space and some office space so it shouldn’t be just forgotten but simply accepting everything because it’s new and shiny will turn Linux into the modern society which accepted everything, beaten all the happiness lows and now refuses to admit its own fault.
It’s quite different to Pipewire which is another recently accepted standard. The transition had some issues but in the end it became fully compatible with stuff made for previous standards so nothing changed for the end user. With immutability such a scenario is impossible without losing all the advantages.
Also the FOSS community and especially projects don’t have quite the expertise in topics not directly related to programming so making good decisions is much harder for them. UX/UI is a very known example. Though here I’m talking about statistics and analysis.