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> What I would like is for Linux to have a stable API for drivers, so out-of-tree drivers could work on every release without DKMS or crap like that. Windows could do it, so it's definitely not a "technical requirement".

Quit the rage and just stick to Windows then. I'm using NVIDIA card and don't want to have this supposedly "stable API" which would leave me at the mercy of their whimsy. NVIDIA as a company deserves much more shame than the middle finger which Linus gave them. And there's no politics here, it's simply their business decision not to support Linux, not the other way around. Once you make an exception for one company you ought to do this for everyone else, it's not how that works in the Kernel community. So yeah it is a "technical requirement", technically it is how drivers get their stable implementation there.