Wouldn't that person want to have everything work well together so he has less headaches?

You don't need oxide, you can't afford it, and you're not a target customer.

All we can say is empirically this is not true. Plenty of people whose full time job is managing rack infra are sick and tired of the customizability of commodity hardware, of the many custom bugs in commodity software, and of the customizability of the price of VMware.