We're still using COBOL for stuff like Visa and Mastercard for almost every contactless payment, saying 'just port it' is not how it works.

That's a weird comparison for multiple reasons. For all the complexity of X, it sure isn't turing complete. The examples you listed for the importance of X basically boiled down to digital signage, in which case it wouldn't be the end of the world to "just port it". It sure as shit ain't the international banking system.

BTW'ers more the world of x86_64 only cutting edge gamestation/workstation that could snap at any moment and is heavily populated by people using linux as a daily driver workstation that want to 'rice', need high steam fps and are often rather evangelical about the idea of 'choice' on a distro that offers almost none of it. Not the 'How to install Steam on Kali' peeps, but not far off.

How does Arch offer almost no choice? Compared to what? LFS? Gentoo? Let them "rice" and optimize for gaming workloads, why ist that so offensive? You're essentially complaining about noobs and children and unless they're doing something really stupid, like Steam on Kali, or being obnoxious in the forums, there's no real reason to get so upset. Linking every single topic back to the same imaginary societal conflict in the Linux world cannot be healthy. Again, this isn't a new thing and you're just trying to link it to other things you don't like, whether or not there's a connection.