I feel like a lot of this is driven by a bias towards the unknown. You don’t know all the security issues in something new or even something old that doesn’t get the same level of testing as Linux.
I would trust security hardened Linux over all of the suggestions any day of the week. Better the devil you know.
Maybe if they do more layoffs, that’ll solve the problem. Surely, the mass layoffs of the past two years have only been a boon to security