Maybe you would have used QNX as an engineer flex in 2012, but as an embedded firmware dev myself, I'd laugh if someone suggested we use QNX for anything. Besides the licensing issues... just why? It confers no imaginable benefit versus any one of dozens of alternatives. It's like if someone suggested I run Haiku on my work laptop.
ISO 26262 ASIL D safety certification, mature tooling and ecosystem, easy to hire experienced devs, “it worked for the last 5 projects”, etc.