@civodul it's definitely a tough issue! my take is that hardware vendors mostly don't care. they've marched ahead with more proprietary firmware and there's no real consequences. free software people just don't have that kind of power. so instead, the only people that suffer are the people who earnestly want to use fully/mostly free distros and find that their hardware doesn't work. many give up, and some start saying bad things about free software as a result. I think it's okay to say we lost this particular fight. there's an entire generation of new free software supporters to win over, so let's make the smallest exception possible to make sure that they can be onboarded.