I myself have called it “a place to dump your child”, but in reality even nursery is early years education. The real purpose of these places was meant to be education. Many politicians do think of nursery (and school!) primarily as a place to keep kids busy with little regard for quality of learning.
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
The only way to make sure Linux works like that is to have a closed hardware environment. But it has to play nicely with other hardware and services (e.g. printers, webcams, etc + office documents, etc). It has taken a very long time for MacOS to get to this point, but people put up with Mac compromises because enough things worked smoothly.
I’ve just commented about this in another thread…but I’m pretty convinced that Linux is not close to being ready for normies.