> ... Cathedral is a better model than the Bazaar ...

well, for the desktop possible choices from the `Cathedral` are:

    - windows, and
    - macos

of late, both seem to have gone in directions that are antithetical to what $random user wants f.e. pushing ai-features, tahoe ui snafu respectively etc. etc.

in `Bazaar` mode, xfce has been an *excellent* choice for quite a while now, and should probably serve `Cathedral` refugees quite well.

all in all, not super convinced of the argument that you seem to be proffering here.

BSD is given as an example of the cathedral in the book.

indeed, iirc, the 1998 usenix presentation by mckusick et al, seems to be an earlier record of (than the book) these s/w development models.

fwiw, both the gnu project and freebsd champion this (cathedral style of) development model.

however, i don't think linux or bsd is *purely* either approach.

w.r.t `user-facing software` which seems to be central thesis of gp, both the alternates (bsd/linux) offer almost an identical choice.

Or Android, HyperOS, DeX, Harmony OS NEXT, running in desktop mode.