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It's a fair point, but if you are in your 80s, mainly use Macs and stuff like like Plan 9, but you have more RasPis around than you can count, then...

... I reckon you're likely to take the path of least resistance and use the one that's right there and you know, rather than start learning something else.

Bear in mind his perspective: he's old, he has limited time left, and he's built not one but two better OSes that should have replaced the first OS he built: Unix.

So he probably is disinclined to spend time or effort on leaning a 3rd party knock-off of his 1970s work.

Linux literally is a 3rd party knock-off of his 1970s work.
Yes, that is exactly what I meant by my concluding line.

If you use RasPis, why bother to learn any other knockoff?

I had never heard the story about google trying to make Ken Thompson take a C proficiency test before, that is hilarious.