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Yes, it does sound silly and it's just plain and simply a bad take.
You really, in your heart of hearts, believe that not supporting Linux and leaving the work to the already hands-full Wine devs is better than them supporting Linux with a native build on an universal platform?
It seems to be working out well for the "Linux gaming" people. Like I said, though, I'm not really concerned with the support of proprietary software on "Linux" or with the idea of the "universal platform" of "Linux." The farther we move away from the idea of "Linux" being a "platform" the better.
See also Let distributions do their job (Drew DeVault); note that the package manager I am using (GNU Guix) aims to make it easy to package different types of libre software projects using "importers" and it's also possible to build packages directly from a specific git commit or reference.