The kernel module that hides the standard dirs under / is entirely optional, and is only there for aesthetic purposes.
If you don't want it, don't load it. Absolutely nothing in gobolinux requires that kernel module to be running. Again, its just purely for aesthetic purposes.
A lot of system designers are insufficiently empathetic to the plight of those who do not yet know as much about the system as they do. This directory-hiding "feature" is kind of a "gotcha" in that a new user could waste hours if he has somehow failed to learn of its existence and he is taking an experimental approach to learning about the system (GoboLinux) as opposed to a "read the documentation" approach.
Sometimes requiring the user to know things that cannot be discovered by experimenting with the system is a necessary evil, but there should be a good reason for the requirement.
Contrary to what you seem to believe, the fact that purely aesthetic reasons motivated the designers of GoboLinux to create this footgun is a bad sign, not a good sign.
Anyone who wants to try out gobolinux for real would at least do some basic reading first. Its that distinct a distro that you kind of have to, and no problems with that. Not everything innovative can be expected to be digested without a modicum of work up front.
I mean, if people install NixOS without any research up front, and throw up their hands in disgust when it doesn't look like Red Hat Enterprise for Big Boys v10, does that mean that NixOS are messing up, and they should change how they do things?
I think not.
Sometimes the simplest alternative implementations require the most up-front understanding, because their simplicity challenges long-held preconceptions about how things should be.
Thats Gobo in a nutshell.
At its heart, its actually a very simple distro. Which uses simple tools, and the filesystem, to lay everything bare in front of the user.
Funnily enough, Gobo is one of the few distros where you can refer to /bin/<any-linux-executable>, and as long as actually have that pkg installed (yes, under /Programs), then /bin/xyz WILL be found. Guaranteed.
Thats by design.
This entire subthread is a bikeshed, started by mistaken assumptions ("security is broken", "some pkgs won't work", etc, etc) over their GoboHide kernel module.
None of it is true, and all too often its a curse which innovative distros have to deal with, somewhat unfairly. I mean, everything is explained in excruciating detail on their website (and was over a decade ago, when I first used it).
And still, years later, we have folks on Hacker News opining at length about how the GoboHide kernel module causes pkgs to break because they can't find /bin/whatever (FALSE), or how gobo doesn't have the ability to build pkgs (someone else brought up this gem on another subthread).
People, if you haven't come across this distro before, then please at least do the basic once-over of their website before jumping onto Hacker News and coming up with X technical reasons why this project is a failure ...
Eg: there's a fantastic essay by Hisham from long ago explaining the motivations behind Gobo:
