I haven't even found that to be the case. I have several ARM boxes including Raspberry Pi, several desktops, a few Macbooks, etc, and have yet to have to build

I haven't even found that to be the case. I have several ARM boxes including Raspberry Pi, several desktops, a few Macbooks, etc, and have yet to have to build a driver from source. Worst thing I've had to do is go wired to install Broadcom stuff in Fedora because it didn't do it for me.