I've revisited Gentoo since then and it's gotten much better. I think they eventually got back on their feet. I believe ChromeOS was based on Gentoo initially.

I've revisited Gentoo since then and it's gotten much better. I think they eventually got back on their feet. I believe ChromeOS was based on Gentoo initially. So by that time the community was nice enough for a big tech company to make a financial bet on it.