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Nah we just all have to switch to a handfull of heavily audited memory safe unikernels.

Your http proxy and your web server don't need a shell, drivers for wifi, mail daemons, systemd, python, PHP, perl, docker, multiple users, hell it might not even need a file system.

You can ship a stripped down docket image running on a stripped down Linux distro, but that still ships the entire kernel with a huge amount of functionality you don't need that may be exploited.

I am kinda expecting the second coming of unikernels. The reduction in both attack surface and depth seems likely to be useful.
Why would unikernels fix this? They don't even attempt privilege separation at all.