It's not remotely bizarre. Distros take on so much god damn work because of the quality of firmware, etc releases. It's a real nightmare. Go check the firmware

It's not remotely bizarre. Distros take on so much god damn work because of the quality of firmware, etc releases. It's a real nightmare. Go check the firmware commit log. Or try to figure out what version of the kernel, firmware, dtbs, eeprom, and more, are actually tested by the Foundation. Doing some work for (distro), I've spent an enormous amount of time building automated, hdmi-captured, media-less-netboot testing platform and you wouldn't believe the number of bugs I hit or slight behavior changes I saw as various firmware updates landed. Usbboot (nee rpiboot) is not really great or well written. Oh I forgot by/wifi firmware is in two more repos, with no instructions on usage, and they keep renaming files breaking my work. So, yeah, I'm not remotely even 1% surprised by this.