This is true for proprietary drivers, but the many open source drivers and replacement drivers would be fixed by someone in the next weekend after a kernel upda

This is true for proprietary drivers, but the many open source drivers and replacement drivers would be fixed by someone in the next weekend after a kernel update, for ABI changes this minor. It might bother the single developer, but after the patch is distributed, it's completely transparent to end users, unlike Windows where you usually need to force every user to manually download the new update.