Someone who has not imbibed Unix concepts with his mother's milk will find them to be a closed book. Hundreds of man pages won't help him either. The arguments waged over whether the building of a user-friendly desktop with commercial tools is permissible is by comparison only ridiculous and repelling. This is not the idea. Yet the arrogance of many self-appointed Linux gurus is counterproductive.
Many people have better things to do than to play with meccano kits.
And a little imitation is no skin off anyone's nose.