Sorry but, what you you on about?
Being free and open source is literally the entire premise and the most important "feature" of the Linux ecosystem: it will almost always be free (as in beer), and there will always be a lot of good choices. You're probably never going to convince me that computers would be better off if we had to spend more money with fewer options.
People keep making this point, but to be perfectly honest it's a dumb one because it's the nature of the beast. OK, let's say for the sake of argument that there's too many distros out there, so now what?
None of this changes the fact that going to ChatGPT for advice (on pretty much any topic) is a bad idea. It doesn't have thoughts or opinions, it doesn't know that (for better or worse) Cosmic just shipped 1.0 a few months ago. It recommended him PopOS because it does nothing other than regurgitate old information scraped from the internet.
Its' like... If I use an LLM for investment advice and I lose all of your money, who's the idiot? I am.