To frame it better:

Let's say I cloned arch, changed the default wallpaper to a swastika, put up a blogpost saying "Heil hitler", and then suddenly got over 50X donations than an actually useful and different OS.

Since last year, Linux mint got $280k donations. Omarchy in the last few months got 15 MILLION. Linux mint maintains 2 distros, and 1 desktop environment, and is basically the gold standard for newbie friendly distros. Omarchy is a few dotfiles and a pile of nazis.

If someone prefers Omarchy's defaults, setup or workflow, that's enough of a reason to use it.

And if I find out they're a Nazi, that's enough reason not to. And in this case there's so little friction and it's so simple to not use it, that it's a no brainer.

If I can avoid supporting a Nazi this easily, without altering a single noticeable thing about my life, it would be irresponsible not to.

Do you understand now?

There is a level of friction associated with changing anything like this for ideological reasons, and everyone has to have their own ways of deciding which ones are worth pushing against, according to them.

"Avoid the Nazi that puts out a slightly modified version of Arch," is just a no brainer. It takes no effort or energy whatsoever to avoid having that in your life.