Not necessarily, I installed them in debian 11 wich still used an old version of xorg, system went to hell and never came back, that was the last time I used nvidia for linux.
Why do I need to struggle? there's already another option wich cost less money and doesn't demand my weekend just to make it "work"
If you as a PERSON, an individual without wanting to make profits do it, then yes it would be absurd.
But, here is a corporation trying making exactly the same they have been doing with open source projects, making a real paywall out of others peoples work red hat, cough cough.
Its the path to divinity