Cohesix isn’t trying to be a better Linux, a lighter Kubernetes, or a new ML runtime. It’s intentionally not a workload OS.
The problem it’s aimed at is the authority boundary: where control, policy, leases, and revocation live once you already have large, fast-moving OSS stacks on the host. That’s why the VM is aggressively constrained (no_std, no POSIX, no daemons) and why everything reduces to file-shaped operations with explicit budgets and failure modes.
Most of the “use X instead” answers assume you want more power inside the boundary. This goes the other way: remove power there so the remaining behavior is auditable and explainable.
If that tradeoff doesn’t resonate, it’s probably the wrong tool—and that’s OK.