You wrote a lot, rather than address it because I didn’t have much to add I just thanked you.
My comment would be seeing the NDP move to where the Liberals used to be is depressing but seeing the Conservatives move to the right of the US Democrats is worse.
They leave their religion at the door when they leave their house or place of worship and it’s not in their lives until they go back to one of those places.
I can code in C on all 3 (more if you include BSDs). You would not believe how amazing my skills are to avoid platform specific dependencies in a language that predates all these OS.
I just don’t imagine it’s many people.