Monocultures are a problem, but diversity divides labor. The more choice you have, the fewer people there will be to work on each choice. I'd say diversify, only when forced to, by imposition. As in the case of Linux, we didn't need to fork it, and now we do. Once, hopefully.
The ideal fork will overcome and replace the unpopular imposed version, like LibreOffice vs OpenOffice. Less ideal is the Qt/GTK divide, where half the programs you use and half the people writing the GUI are on one side or the other.
So, hope that gives ideas for your talk. Good luck!
Cy
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