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Distro developers and user are separate people.

No, they don't have to be. How did this user-hostile attitude infect Linux too?

Also, a person viewing the QR code is not necessarily the owner of the panicked system.

So what? Stop hiding things from users. If they don't care they don't have to read. If they do, don't make them jump through additional hoops.

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It being user-hostile is debatable. It's meant to be friendlier, as described in the Fedora link I shared. Coincidentally though, I got a panic yesterday and my phone wasn't able to scan the QR code, lol, so who knows what the panic was.

The non-QR/textual panics can be restored with a kernel/module parameter as described here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel#QR_code_on_a_blue_sc...

The QR code can be made to provide the text itself (non-URL-encoded) by rebuilding the kernel with CONFIG_DRM_PANIC_SCREEN_QR_CODE_URL unset.

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