Right? Like it or not, we live in a society dominated by money. A very small number of Linux distributions have found a way to sustainably produce an excellent product. That’s a good thing. The alternatives are either burnout or insecurity.
Just like the stigma of tattoos. And that change in the zeitgeist seemed to happen extremely rapidly, over a period of perhaps five years or so. The gamer stigma will similarly disappear rapidly very soon.
Same and same
Not significantly more so than other full desktop environments
It’s not the Linux kernel that’s being closed, but likely their own contributions, which most likely aren’t all GPL.