Granted, it’s a kind of niche use case but in the embedded world there’s usually size constraints which prevents a full blown bash installation.

However, things are better now than 20 years ago. Flash is cheap.

“…wasting massive amounts of ad money.”

I don’t see this as a problem.

Solar system. My gaming machine is called Titan, my Pihole is called Asteriods, my Lemmy machine Callisto and on it goes. 😀