I mean the empirical evidence alone seems point at the Unix Philosophy not actually being popular in practice. GNU tools are much more widely used on boxes humans interact with than BSD/busybox. You don't see everyone trying to figure out how to install all of the suckless tools immediately after installing linux, etc. And then of course we get into systemd and that whole ball of wax.
I do think there's a growing split between server like things and desktop like systems that people actually regularly use. For example, Alpine is super popular in containers, not so much on desktops. Same thing with Busybox, but that's more explicitly meant for embedded envs.
I do think there's a growing split between server like things and desktop like systems that people actually regularly use. For example, Alpine is super popular in containers, not so much on desktops. Same thing with Busybox, but that's more explicitly meant for embedded envs.