Is it unreasonable to ask "why not"? I like the state of Android's (as packaged by GrapheneOS) settings UI much better than any other settings system, period.

It's all in one place - I can't think of a single thing I would want to configure that isn't found in that one dialog. It doesn't always make sense, but it's searchable, and the search works.

Just imagine configuring nginx or apache with UI.

Come on, we're talking about system settings on future ChromeBooks. Of course I don't want a GUI for writing nginx config files.

Android is very good at exposing things like

* "which service may know the device location?"

* "which app accessed the microphone 2 minutes ago?"

* "which apps burn the most battery?"

All of those make sense on ChormeBooks, and all of those are difficult with Linux.

The point is that many of Linux's system settings are almost as complex as that. You want some examples?

The good old days of

    make menuconfig