> will never be fully upstreamed if the reverse engineered devicetree is uninterpretable vibeslop.

The device tree is the least of a problem, it's a very limited, highly structured language, you don't need super deep understanding of things to get it right.

Problem is the drivers they write. The hacks, the workarounds, the utter mess. There's hundreds of commits that I am certain no one keeps track of and understands their true purpose.