Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?

"but we don't create incentives to get in there and start exploring, investigating, and changing it."

You get that incentive by being curious and wanting to learn. This article is: feelings, feelings, lacking skills, more feelings, now give money.

I'm worried about the future of the Linux kernel given the general attitude of this article and the inorganic shoehorning of rust.