Since Minecraft blew up with 12 year olds using potatoe hardware I think the criteria required would be:

1. 12 year old thinks name is great and can spell it

2. it can run on a potatoe

Who wants to volunteer to collect this data

True, I still think it’s fair to criticize the package managers and distros for not anticipating this common scenario and having the ability to roll back easily. How many millions of Linux users have experienced this issue? I’ll bet a few.

Debian, Gentoo come from another generation and sometimes it shows, I mean snapshots weren’t even a thing yet AFAIK.

With a cliffhanger like that I’ll try to guess … number of steps taken?

Not really sure what else is realistic and what is hypothetical.