A personal computer should have the capacity to rebuild its own software within itself. I should be able to read, modify, and run everything ... unfortunately we have firmware which we can work to minimize but even then, so few machines these days pass this test and its an entirely avoidable failure. Documentation should be included in some form as well.
What we have now aren't personal computers. They're not even purpose-built appliances because many aren't even repairable or documented. These are in some category that has no name beyond consumerist trap.
And sure you can tell me how long Gentoo used to take to emerge world or whatever but once that got out of reach so did our priorities. We need to make this kind of thing practical and even trivial. Software we use now has unsustainably complex supply chains, build resource requirements, lack of coherent structure, and egregious build resource requirements (ever try to build a "modern" web browser, what a tire fire).
Out with Linux as it is today, the modern web, probably most rust projects (what a mess of dependencies and compiler waste), giant compiler suites (ever try to build llvm?), and beyond that things which refuse to evolve to better fit the mission of computing for people not computing for corporations.