A general comment: the need of the hour is to educate the billions of 'ordinary' computer users about the basics of software, privacy, security and trust. We must not fall into the narrative being parroted around off-late that considers end-users as pretty much dumb content consumers who should not be expected to ever know even the minimum about the underlying tech and therefore every decision needs to be made for th…
And I'm happy with these stores and couldn't care less about your cyberpunk libertarianism.
This isn't 1984. The moment they seriously misbehave, the law will come at them, and customers will leave. Therefore they don't.
You're indulging in fantasies because you would like to believe that what interests you is all-important. That's normal: all epidemiologists belief we should talk about the flu a lot more.
But it's just a tiny slice of what matters. So don't disparage people as stupid just because they spend their energy and time with more important things than recompiling kernels.