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People want to game. Telling them to install Debian stable is not going to end well. There's a reason why these "weird" gaming distros are popular, and it's not because they are making people run back to Windows - quite the opposite.

The secret for a reasonable linux distro for most people is LTS Kernel + Latest packages. Most people want the latest versions of whatever software they use that will often include new features and lots bugfixes. The only time you really need a new kernel is for to support cutting edge hardware.

Many of the Arch or Fedora derivatives fit this paradigm well.

Occam's distro-hopper? Don't attribute to malice, what's easily explained by people chasing after trendy new things.

And DEs. MS taking no prisoners, meanwhile Linux community squabbling over which button layout is best.