Nonsense. There are essentially two conflicting ideals here: what developers want and what distros want. The problem is that distros are generally right and what distros want is also what users want. So it's devs against the world.

Devs want to ship updates whenever they want and force them into their users' machines as soon as possible, and forget about updating dependencies and pin them to ten versions ago so they never have to eat the cost of upgrading them. Devs don't want to make sure their application plays well with others, they just want to package it up in its own universe, the user's hard drive space and bandwidth be damned. Devs never want to finish their software or declare it stable, they just want to ship their machine on Monday morning so users have it installed by Monday afternoon, just to be updated again on Wednesday. Devs want to ship spyware and adware and malware without any oversight. All of this is cheap and profitable for devs but highly antisocial.

Everything is better about the distro model: security, efficiency, and stability, and they represent the users interests even when they conflict with the dev's interests.

"Modern applications" are developed by children and distros are the teacher slapping them on the wrist for misbehaving. Don't bitch about it -- just grow up.