I and millions more hate entering code. That's exactly why each version of Windows leaned harder on improving GUI interaction and pushing DOS aside.
Pushing those of us who were there at thee beginning aside. I use this Windows laptop (running 7 and only using it because the boxen and monitors are still packed away) for only 2 things - Firefox to get on the forums I frequent and running a DOS box for things like adb and programming things that don't depend on the OS - like PHP and Javascript. Some of us actually prefer the command line, and many of us have written command lines. (No, I don't mean written commands on them, I mean the code that makes a command interpreter work.)
Assign the developers of the ditched distros
That's one of the points of Linux distros. No one assigns anyone to do anything. If you want to come out with a new distro, then abandon it, that's perfectly fine. And if someone else wants to pick up that abandoned distro and start running with it again, that's fine too.
You'd at least think that Gods of Linux
That's something that Windows users who sometimes play with Linux have to start understanding - Linux is like Mormonism. We're ALL Gods of Linux. Or, like atheism, there are no gods. Linux isn't "we have to ...", Linux is "I think I'm going to ...". And if you don't like it you can do it your way. You don't have to use a distro that's on Distrowatch, you can write your own, that departs so far from the mainstream that Linus wouldn't recognize it.
No one is going to force Linux to be "easier" or more "homogenous" - it's going to be what those who are writing it, and there are thousands (at least) want it to be. If you're looking for a single OS, with a single set of programs for it, that run just by clicking a button, run Windows.
Heck, I'd rather be running on a 6502 with a 500 byte monitor. But being limited to 64k minus however many I/O ports I needed would be a bit stifling, so I'll use an i86 or an ARM. But limit me to one UI that works the same for everyone and one set of programs? I'll spend the rest of my retirement writing my own OS. I've done it 3 times - the 4th shouldn't be that difficult.
I don't WANT an "easier" more-like-Windows OS. I get more use out of my phone than I do out of this Winblows laptop. It's just difficult for these old fingers to type on that little OSK. But one of these days, this Unicomp keyboard (it's just like the old IBM clackers) gets plugged into the phone and it's goodbye laptop. Phone and a few Linux boxen. (And if I can find the old Slackware 0.92 floppies, it's getting installed. The floppy drive is still in its box, waiting to be installed for just that purpose. Colors in the ls command, imagine that.)
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