...and 99.9% of what it identifies as errors either aren't, or are so minor they're irrelevant. And "fixing" them breaks piles of other code.

Projects that hasd no more than a dozen requests a year are now getting swamped with hundreds of requests a day. People in the third world are using agents to generate thousands of broken, garbage "patches" to claim money.

But why would Torvalds give a shit hey ? He can fuck over those people just like he did with C++ developers.