The thing is though, if they shipped a driver like Nvidia does, where it's this blob that just wraps its tendrils into what ever systems are needed, that's not

The thing is though, if they shipped a driver like Nvidia does, where it's this blob that just wraps its tendrils into what ever systems are needed, that's not the graphics maintainers problem either It's a net loss for users of AMD hardware (though AMD's hardware on Linux has been a dumpster fire for as long as I can remember) because they have to suffer arguably worse driver support, but that's on AMD for wanting to have their cake and eat it too