I get what you are saying. But this always would have been exciting.
This is like a post saying someone got Apple Basic running on their Commodore 64.
Agree with both you and OP.
Hardware we buy should be open to be modified easily with a common open source scheme - but any modifications should void warranty.
At the same time, we don't live in that world and so this post and the work done is still cool and exciting.
More like if Commodore used to sell an official Apple Basic package and then stopped:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2