It's not insane. Many people who were in the GNU organisation wanted the OS to be as hostile against binaries as possible to prevent people distributing proprie

It's not insane. Many people who were in the GNU organisation wanted the OS to be as hostile against binaries as possible to prevent people distributing proprietary software with GNU. That GNU became the userspace layer. It isn't that this is 2026 and it was a bug that hasn't been fixed since. The userspace of GNU is designed against what you consider as basic functionality.