Have they really embraced it though? Or this is an undocumented debugging port which may go away in a future software update?
Martin Sandsmark, the CTO, is a KDE developer and long-time Arch Linux community...guy.
It's not going away in a future software update :)
That is just one person, who can leave.
Or be overruled.
or actually do something good. why all the glass half full
Experience. A great deal of computing has trended towards locking out user control. Hopefully this is an exception, but I understand why people are pessimistic.
The trouble is that you can always assume that systems will become closed. If that's true, there's nothing to be hopeful about ever. It may be true in the majority of cases, but you have to give someone a chance at some point.
Kobo is kinda open in a way too, some nice stuff from the homebrew community for it.
My kobo device got stuck in a boot loop and when I opened it up I saw the internal storage was a micro sd card. Put it in my computer and found a full linux system. Deleted the user database and the device booted again. I also saw there was a recovery partition so I probably could have fixed it from a button combo but still, cool stuff.