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I feel like it is hard enough to hire people, especially good devops, why turn people off this badly?

Lots of people won't do this work, it's true. But the ones who will, are much more likely to make phenomenal colleagues. They care, they are focused, they are diligent. Things work better when you are in a team with more of that. Try it someday.

How would you know, if you reject everyone who doesn't fit your predetermined box? Have you ever actually tried a different strategy for hiring, or building a team?

Also, for people standing outside the company looking in, things do not look happy and healthy at Canonical, which makes it even more likely you are being fooled by some of your own staff, or the figures they present to your, into thinking things are better than they are. I've failed to find a single positive review of working for Canonical, yet we have a smorgasbord of bad reviews all over the internet. You may want to evaluate that as "evidence" that something isn't right.

Try what someday? Making people jump through silly hoops and run a business that gets ripped on for odd hiring practices? No thanks. I'll stick with my current hiring practices.

Thanks for Ubuntu by the way. I've got well over 15k servers running it right now and wouldn't even consider anything else.

You're welcome :)

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