Yes! Just to provide one anecdotal example, I have a Asus Zenbook Windows 10 laptop (OEM installed), where the touchpad just randomly breaks after some Windows

Yes! Just to provide one anecdotal example, I have a Asus Zenbook Windows 10 laptop (OEM installed), where the touchpad just randomly breaks after some Windows updates every few years. Right now my laptop isn't recognizing any multi touch gestures, which makes scrolling a pain in the ass. I can't exactly remember what I did to fix it the last time, but it involved downloading some drivers from the touchpad manufacturers website (not the laptop vendor), which looked really dodgy. A non-technical user would have zero chance of getting it to work. For a technical user such as myself, it would be much easier to recompile libinput with some patch I grabbed from their issue tracker. As a bonus, there's less chance of getting malware from the latter than going to some Asian hardware manufacturer's poorly translated website in search of a compatible driver download.