I think the core of the issue is expecting people to agree with stuff.
Linux is free software and there's really nobody stopping people from forking it and doing things the way they want. It used to happen all the time once upon a time, nowadays people seems to be afraid of doing it.
The kernel is nearly 30 million lines of code. I would love to see a fork where Rust starts taking over sections of it, but that's a huge undertaking that would clearly take many years.
Yep, either people are willing to do the fork and take the challenge or they accept that nobody has to be forced to accept their opinions and contributions, good or not.
Linux is free software and there's really nobody stopping people from forking it and doing things the way they want. It used to happen all the time once upon a time, nowadays people seems to be afraid of doing it.