The short answer is in many cases it's just not worth it. Maintaining a Linux build is not free and the possible market share gain is fairly minimal. Add to that the possibility you get it for free through proton and your reasons for investing the dev effort shrink.
I've heard an argument for maintaining Linux builds because Linux users will provide better bug reports but that mindset is unlikely to ever survive in a big studio
The more full reason is that the device is still encrypted prior to first unlock and is harder to extract any information from. As to what you said about police requiring you to enter your PIN, they can't. You can't be forced to reveal your passwords/PINs but they can legally force you to unlock biometrics (fingerprint/face ID)
I'd be curious to see a citation because everything I can find suggests it's still obstruction of correspondence and a federal offense as they were not the intended recipient
Counter point: it's a studio who made a groundbreaking open world series (jak and daxter) who only later became known for linear games returning to their roots
These python programmers are literally maintainers of the language. They're not a dime a dozen. Not saying it's impossible or anything but you're looking to get very high caliber engineers for under 140k
Right or wrong, they committed a crime at the time. A change in law doesn't really invalidate the crime committed. That differs from this where the conviction itself was based on faulty evidence or procedure.
Just for clarity sake, I don't really agree with this but I do think it's a valid difference between the situations
My group is almost exclusively dads with fulltime jobs. We play remote (FoundryVTT), run one game a week that runs between 2 and 4 hours.
Full disclosure I'll say that remote is about 85% as good as playing in person, but I'll take 80% and easy scheduling over 100% but constant missed games or conflicts
The short answer is in many cases it's just not worth it. Maintaining a Linux build is not free and the possible market share gain is fairly minimal. Add to that the possibility you get it for free through proton and your reasons for investing the dev effort shrink.
I've heard an argument for maintaining Linux builds because Linux users will provide better bug reports but that mindset is unlikely to ever survive in a big studio