You have greater assurance of what the software is doing behind the scenes.

Even if you can’t read code, others who can will; privacy groups (official and hobbyist) likely will.

You can know, even if just through others, sort of what’s going on with the software in a way you simply can’t with proprietary software.

100% this; cheese on its own is always a wonderful snack.

I was convinced, until the end of the game, there had to be some way to bring her back.

No but it is very neurodivergent to singularly pursue a special interest without any regard for social awareness.

And very neurotypical to label that person as annoying or just doing it for attention.