I'm late here myself, but it seems to me the problem is that Ardour sticks to the long-since-EOL'd GTK 2 and relies on non-upstreamable behavior. The bad actor

I'm late here myself, but it seems to me the problem is that Ardour sticks to the long-since-EOL'd GTK 2 and relies on non-upstreamable behavior. The bad actor here doesn't seem to be the distros IMO.