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There is something sinister about his vision. I think it is fine for server OS to all be identical (docker is that already) - probably what you want, although less flexible. But for personal computing... that makes it very impersonal, to force bit-to-bit conformance on people.
This is not what this is about. You can customize it without problem, see Steam Deck. Its about the core system files being read only and easy to upgrade.