Mozilla decides to drastically redesign their user interface, removing tons of flexibility
Or you can just use Pale Moon which is literally a Firefox fork without the Australis UI.
and next on the chopping block are their more-powerful extensions
They're not "on the chopping block". If they stop working, it's only because they haven't been maintained for a long time anyway. Mozilla doesn't break backwards-compatibility for the heck of it, it needs to do these changes to get to the same level of security that's offered by Chrome (with its multi-process architecture), to get to the next level of performance that's hinted at by Servo, and to get rid of the massive maintenance nightmare that is XUL.
(I don't say that the transition won't be painful at places. I'm very worried that Vimperator does not support Electrolysis yet.)
Gnome decides to totally throw out the old paradigm of desktop user interfaces with version 3.
Or you can just use Mate, which is literally a Gnome 3 fork with the Gnome 2 UI.
Every major Linux distro jumps on board with systemd.
Yes, because it has tremendous technical advantages for distributors. And it's also good news for independent software vendors because it steamrolls over a lot of useless incompatiblities between distributions, so if we see more commercial software for Linux in the future, systemd might play a small part in it. (Of course, stuff like that doesn't make the frontpage.)
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Or you can just use Pale Moon which is literally a Firefox fork without the Australis UI.
They're not "on the chopping block". If they stop working, it's only because they haven't been maintained for a long time anyway. Mozilla doesn't break backwards-compatibility for the heck of it, it needs to do these changes to get to the same level of security that's offered by Chrome (with its multi-process architecture), to get to the next level of performance that's hinted at by Servo, and to get rid of the massive maintenance nightmare that is XUL.
(I don't say that the transition won't be painful at places. I'm very worried that Vimperator does not support Electrolysis yet.)
Or you can just use Mate, which is literally a Gnome 3 fork with the Gnome 2 UI.
Yes, because it has tremendous technical advantages for distributors. And it's also good news for independent software vendors because it steamrolls over a lot of useless incompatiblities between distributions, so if we see more commercial software for Linux in the future, systemd might play a small part in it. (Of course, stuff like that doesn't make the frontpage.)