My impression of these people is that they generally use very out-of-date versions, and they misunderstand/misuse configuration settings to the point that their builds are illogical for anyone's needs, despite their surface-level appeal upon skimming the manual & ancient mailing list messages. So the government performs efficiently for some very specific workloads, but generally lacks necessary features to run society at web scale.
Agreed i'm not interested in "ever-growing"...not for a distro nor a gov...but i am interested in an evolving one for the better - i.e. improve effectiveness, and reduce bloat if it adds nothing of value. ;-)
The economy is pretty bad in the USA too if you aren't a white collar tech worker (or in a handful of other white collar fields). Maybe not as bad, but it's pretty rough for a lot of people, possibly a majority, and it's definitely unsustainable.
