BTW congrats with my severe ADHD I typically reinstall operating systems several times a week I can honestly say I have used Bazzite the longest out of any distro, perhaps that is due to me being able to just rebase into whatever I want and distrobox really helps with my "itch" to try something on one OS
they are in the limelight right now because it means people hanging onto their ten year old hardware still have a shot at playing games made for the next ten years of hardware
A stopgap solution to a problem they created, isn't really much of a defense of it though. I hear people talk about the generational difference all the time- But in reality it's entirely bullshit. And you can tell because every time these companies talk about it it's like oh in the next gen we'll have more power. Then the "next gen" arrives, and everything is still an issue. Games locked to 30 fps, games downscaled way below native. The reality is if a studio thinks they can save money by leaning on those crutches, they will every time.
and this is full of shit. nvidia didn't "create this problem". the reason we need these stopgaps is because artists are looking for a solution to lighting problems that are fundamental to how renderers have been developed for the last 30 years