> It’s just that nobody seems to care about Linux’s “out of the box” default configuration

Define “out of the box” because with Linux there’s millions of hardware variations to deal with.

The only possible way this would work OOB is if the OEM or the community maintained OOB settings for each hardware variant.

Heck, I was recently shopping PC laptops and would see variations in CPU OEMs (AMD vs Intel) for the same model.