Same here. You just end up building your own DE. It's great for some people, but I'm already plenty satisfied with GNOME + some extensions

Consent-o-matic automatically goes through the cookie banner and makes sure everything is disabled instead of simply blocking the banner

I can't tell whether you're joking or not, but if you aren't: https://f-droid.org/

Everything you described won't necessarily be done better in other distros.

A public company means that the stocks can be freely traded on a stock market. This is opposed to a private company where the stocks are traded in private transactions. Because investors want the value of their assets (their stocks) to go up (so they can resell them for a higher value), the company has to keep increasing it's revenue

What? Who's wishing for Stallman's death?

I find myself switching between Brave and Firefox. The anti-Brave crowd is mostly dissatisfied with the Brave ownership and the crypto/ad features. I myself don't have a problem with either. The crypto and ad features can simply be disabled. If you like Brave and it does what you want then you should use it

Sure, Chromium is open source, but let's not pretend that the community has any say over Chromium's direction. Google is making the decisions, we're just allowed to watch

Wanting to make money from your app doesn't prevent you from making it foss, therefore I have no favourite proprietary apps

No. Just use Jellyfin

Thunderbird is and always has been the GOAT. The only real downside is the lack of a tray item, but this can be partially solved by installing Birdtray. I think Thunderbird 115 released with this feature, but it only works on Windows. Fingers crossed that it comes to Linux soon

What does it do that Logseq doesn't?