> Technically Asahi Linux isn’t facing a much different situation than standard Linux distributions as they relate to x86 hardware.

Very very different.

> There are thousands of PC components that don’t provide any sort of Linux driver where contributors reverse engineer those drivers.

Increasingly more rare. Maybe that only happens thèse d'ays on extremely specialized hardware.

It’s only rare these days because Linux spent decades clawing its way into data centers and workstations.

You can find a somewhat similar situation on Linux, with other non-Apple ARM hardware.