Twitter and Reddit were pretty reliable, too. Needlessly putting yourself at the mercy of a company, especially for say your main computer, seems like a recipe for waking up to headache some day, where rage posting on social media is your only recourse.

99% of people's only recourse is rage posting on social media even if the drivers are open source. Not everyone is technical enough to work on graphics drivers or want to sponsor someone else to work on it.

The point is to keep the development incentives aligned with your incentives, and for it to occur within the wider ecosystem, such that cross-purposes problems don't happen in the first place.