If crypto is the bar, Linux looks even worse. At least crypto was novel in the past 30 years. Linux works on new hardware and... that's it. There's nothing new about Linux. As far as OSes go there is seL4 other interesting research. Linux is a toilet. It flushes. It has utility. That's good, but I don't need to hear about every new release of something which just isn't changing in fundamental ways.
And you don't think plumbing is important? Are you secretly a fan of cholera?
And stability is important. Things which change all the time for the sake of change are extremely tiring, e.g. the JS/TS/JSX/whatever is new over there these days. Yet stodgy old Linux provides more utility than almost all other software.
