@arraybolt3@theres.life @vkc@linuxmom.net The comments may look like a replay of the Jia Tan incident, but it isn't like forcing someone to hand out their maintenance role to another like last time. I can see where those people are coming from, because just like them, I'm somewhat a Ventoy fan booting several ISOs for system installations and repairs. If I watched her video, I'm likely to leave a comment on why leaving Ventoy out too, and I also see avid fans of certain pieces of products bombarding recommendations when they see a list doesn't contain what they love.
The solution you recommended requires purchasing a separate piece of hardware is sadly not feasible in a broader context. Where thumb drives could be obtained relatively cheaply, those pieces of hardware you recommended cost around 50 euros for a single one. On the cost front alone, the temporary solution offered isn't likely to attract a crowd of any significance.
I must admit however the binary blobs are indeed quite questionable, as I also went through the nightmare of manually downgrading the packages on a fleet of servers myself during that xz incident, writing a call-out post after that. I can't say I'll be stopping using Ventoy at all in the foreseeable future until another all-software solution makes its scene, but I'll keep this disturbing fact in mind.

Edit: Sifting through the comment section, I found @attilax@framapiaf.org mentioning MultiSystem (use machine translation if you cannot read French), which was sadly discontinued over two years ago.