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X11 didn't have what we currently consider "basic functionality" for decades after its release.
What's the relevance of this? You're position is that we should give up features we have for software that doesn't have them after 15 years of knowing they needed them.
Buying a new laptop and running Linux pretty much always requires running mainline kernels for a few weeks or months until things get fixed. Same thing happens for ThinkPad and others.
That's a nice story but at my company management actively discourage all forms of code hygiene. The only thing they care about is code shipped. It comes down to a perverse set of incentives from the csuite but it 100% has zero to do with developer articulation.
Nobody gets in shit for telling their developers to code faster.
Lots of risk telling them to fix the underlying issues so they can ship faster in the future.