You're right regarding the tone, it just rubbed me off the wrong way. Especially since I (originally) made a neutral comment and didn't insult anybody.

>Though there is a limit to how much you can effectively sandbox a driver for most devices. They do have a point even if they made it badly. I know you listed some methods but they don't generalize to arbitrary devices very well.

Likely not, but the rarer cases could always be exceptions.

Most devices, screens, printers, mice, audiocards, etc should not have to go through this, at least not for basic functioning.

Which is why I like e.g. "class compliant" devices for example, whereas the configurations can be managed directly from the OS with no third party driver loaded. Some of those do come with the custom proprietary driver, but for most I don't even bother installing it.