everyone dumps on Linus but no one is willing to take his job

wait, what's that? how can any old Internet Commenter just decide to replace Linus?!?

fork the kernel, call it something else...now you have your own kernel and you can be the BDFL and do all the YOLO merges you want

as it stands I agree with him completely in these threads so you are more than welcome to build your own fork, I will stick with Linux