Linux* actually does have a tendency towards more hardline stances, simply because it's not answerable to market forces in quite the same way. For example, say 0.5% of monitors out there have dodgy edid values like this. For a commercial OS, that's a lot of unhappy people, many of whom have social media accounts, so "When displaying a new resolution, always start at max(60Hz, lowest available refresh rate) so if something's wrong people can at least see what's going on" might be a good rule of thumb for a commercial OS.

For Linux, however, the equivalent might be "report the bug so an exception can be made for this specific monitor". In other words, it's less important that everybody be immediately happy, as long as bugs can be reported and eventually fixed.

* Shorthand for any OSS kernel and its associated ecosystem