Linux’es diversity has never been found in the large fundamental pieces of software. Instead it’s typically been found in the nooks and crannies between them. We’ve typically had one or several of those and most have used those. It’s the kind of diversity you find between evolutionary differences between the same species, not revolutionary differences.
Why develop libcosmic around iced instead of going with something else modern that’s easy to develop in such as Flutter? Iced/libcosmic is probably a bit more efficient resource-wise but that probably wasn’t a huge point.
Organic maps which claims to be ad-free was marked by F-Droid as “Containing ads”
Here is their pull request (with plenty of users negative comments)...
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COSMIC: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)