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Is..is it not the webcam that's reporting the endpoint? Not Linux?

Correct. This is inherent to the camera's USB descriptor; it's entirely independent of the OS being used to interact with the device.

I am not sure I fully understand what you mean by your remark, but I am positive that this is not a situation most “mainstream desktop users” are ever going to encounter.

Yeah, I mean there are a lot of reasons why linux desktop isn't going mainstream anytime soon, but this is certainly not one of them.

I'm pretty sure this is a quirk of the hardware that the Linux kernel has little control over.

Plus, at the end of the day this hardware actually worked. This process would have been far more involved if the author was on Windows or Mac.