Actually, it’s also the someone that makes the distro controversial. (Spoiler: poorly veiled bigotry in link.)

Seriously though… I wouldn’t want fascists’ money anywhere near my pet distros, regardless of volume. As they say: “He who pays the piper calls the tune.”

Maybe it’s because I neutered my W11 and only dual boot to launch the occasional game or Windows specific driver

Yes, it’s that. If you’d use it as your daily driver, you would notice. I do tech support at work and there’s hardly a month that goes by without a Win 11 machine sitting on my desk that has - miraculously! - fucked-up drivers or other issues after an “update”.