I think you're overestimating how much hardware manufacturers care about the Linux market.

All of this is just woefully overestimating how important the desktop market is to manufacturers at this point, Windows and Apple included.

Hardware manufacturers care a lot about the Linux market. But that Linux is Android, not desktop machines. Yes, the linux desktop segment is a tiny fragment of the market, but that market itself is shrinking and has been for almost a decade.

also, why create a linux driver when drivers for other OS's can have phone home/telemetry/postsales monetization/etc