Right, but the point is that if you're employed by a company who are active further down the stack (such as Red Hat) then it's far easier to assume that you can get things changed down there. So if there is an attitude split it's between the "cans" and "cannots" in that sense, in that folk hacking on KDE desktop components don't really have any recourse to pushing things down the stack other than fd.o. So it's a sort of resignation rather than a deliberate bid for abstraction.

- Chris