It's also not worth my time or money to track down old, beat-up Chromebooks and put Linux on them, and yet here we are. I'm weird, so the things I find fun are weird.
Your own post demonstrates that you are incorrect: someone upvoted it. Therefore, not everybody thinks the same.
It's not that they aren't as good, necessarily. More that the others do less "grey-hat" stuff, and therefore are less likely to cause harm or alter the content they host.
No. They think that relying on a hostile archive will ultimately harm Wikipedia.They know the shortcomings of the other options.
Hey now, more beans for the rest of us.