I would agree, but snap is a mess. I have core snaps that are out of date, can't get rid of them, can't update them, can't fix them. I think I have to uninstall the whole service and reinstall to fix it. Meh, I'll just change distro and fix it that way. Luckily I have all the control and all the choices.

I like systemd, but I do understand the objections to it. Luckily if you don't want to run systemd, you don't have to.

I don't like Unity, which is fine because there are tons of other options. The article author loves MacOS's look and feel. I don't. So I'm screwed because MacOS only comes in one flavour.

I don't think the article gives enough coverage to this. It's not just "tinkering" with Linux. We have real choices, and it's the only one of the three where that's the case. That's way more important (to me) than a lot of the other things they talk about.