My attempt to disambiguate was to add the word "feeling". I suppose maybe you could "feel" like you are nauseating others. This is part of the reason I like to be precise with word choice.
I appreciate the distinction between Elon being ideologically a Nazi and Elon being transactional i.e. "in" with Nazis.
I guess it's preferable that he's not a Nazi per se, but I don't really see a point in acting any differently based on that distinction. Fuck Nazis and equally fuck Nazi sympathizers.
Except the vast majority of the kernel is in driver modules.
So for an individual machine, the attack surface is not really any bigger than it needs to be.
The OS will only load modules it needs for your hardware, so the "bloat" only exists at the source code and binary size level. You are free to compile an optimized binary for your hardware. The complete kernel binary should fit in a 200MB boot partition.
As for maintenance, that's a fair point, but the effort is at least somewhat distributed if hardware devs provide the drivers.
Schedule it in the morning then.