Users do not benefit from binary blob drivers. They are insecure, make it hard to fix problems, and add artificial constraints to hardware. Manufacturers can g

Users do not benefit from binary blob drivers. They are insecure, make it hard to fix problems, and add artificial constraints to hardware. Manufacturers can get their drivers merged into the mainline kernel and they won't have a driver backward compatibility issue to worry about. They choose not to for business reasons (market segmentation/artificial hardware limits via drivers) or because they are being cheap. And because much of the market doesn't know enough to care, it mostly works for them. In the long run I think it limits the IoT ecosystem from progressing and it's a practice which must stop. If your hardware is not fully supported by the mainline kernel, it may as well not exist.