Well if you look at how Feds has being pumping money into Musk's bank account and what brought down the SVB, then $60B may not be that much. At this point as the country that can prints/(adjust db ledger) $60B is nothing.

yeah, nepotism has always being around, it is just more obvious now, before one would need laundry money through some what seemly acceptable foundations.

Volla is one that comes to mind. Ubuntu touch, it is German, but there should be more coming. Not really advertising them, but should be more that is coming.

Why bother with iOS and Android?

Well they can, but isn't debian and freebsd on mobile here now? I know they are rough around the edges, but who still cares about Android or iOS in the long run? If I can run my mobile device with root access using debian or freebsd, why still bother with Google and Apple?

with GPU finger printing cookies are least of my concern now days. Cookies are about as good as a web session it should be discardable if needed.

Yeah but once the attacker get access to the JS they can do whatever. That is why stop using CDN for your jquery or react libs!