I use Fedora on my Thinkpad T470s and my fingerprint reader and WAN card do not work. I got the fingerprint reader to work by following lengthy tutorials which do include custom repos and manual editing of the PAM configuration. The WAN card is just dead in the water.
Even getting the fingerprint reader to work would be to complicated for at least 90% of PC users. And it could break with any update as it is a custom driver which doesn’t get updated anymore
Nobody said a word about distro hoping so I don’t know what your point is