When Linus says "To me, security is important. But it's no less important than everything else that is also important!" I believe him, but now I'm not so sure

When Linus says "To me, security is important. But it's no less important than everything else that is also important!" I believe him, but now I'm not so sure anymore with this article. This is a very disconcerting about the linux kernel, I'm totally freaked out by this article. I didn't realize that the state of security with linux has come to this. My first linux distro was redhat 2.0. And now after almost 20 some years of using linux, I'm now going to have to switch back to Microsaft Windows!