i don't really care for mindless appeals to authority. make your own arguments and defend them or don't bother.
this gpu driver looks pretty cool though. looks like there's much more to the rust compatibility layer in the asahi tree and it is pretty cool that they were able to ship so quickly. i'd be curious how kernel rust compares to user space rust with respect to bloat. (user rust is pretty bad in that regard, imo)
You previously appealed to Linux being the largest worlds most important source tree and then you choose to eschew the opinion of that project's lead.
Unless you have a specific falsifiable claim that is being challenged or defended, it's not at all a fallacy to assume expert opinions are implicitly correct. It's just wisdom and good sense, even if it's not useful to the debate you want to have.
This isn't an appeal to just any authority, but the authority that defines Linux and is its namesake.