I've stated multiple time that I'm not biblical about open source software and I'll use the proprietary solutions if there is no good open source alternative. However nvidia is a special case(as usual). My laptop has a low end mobile nvidia gpu which is anything but special or demanding(mx250 to be exact). The laptop itself is dual screen(the Asus zenbook duo series) and nouveau worked out of the box, no issues whatsoever. I mean there were some but they were unrelated to the gpu driver. In essence I never really needed to deal with the proprietary drivers. My workstation is a bit different in that regard. The GPU was the one thing in it that I cheaped out on - an oldish quadro model from 2017-18. But again the nouveau drivers worked perfectly and all 3 monitors worked perfectly fine. I did however plan on playing with CUDA a bit and decided to install the proprietary drivers. Big mistake. It took me a whole weekend to recover from the tons and tons of problems that came with them. So in that regard, I think that if a distro offers them out of the box, the chances of wasting so much time in fixing and getting things to work may be a good thing. That said, I'm not entirely sure that forcing people to use a proprietary driver by default in a linux distro is a wise idea. A much better option would be for the users to decide on their own which one they want to use.