"That can be avoided with some OS, typically stringent against them like OpenBSD"
As far as I know, those distributions include non free firmwares, which, potentially or maybe not, could contain some backdoors.
I don't want to preach no one, but for me is a ethical, moral question. I want to avoid operating systems that haven't a clear policy about free software. It is my opinion that I am not the only one here, and that this explains the "Debian monoculture".
Maybe I'm wrong.
I would be happy to use a BSD operating system, only if I was sure that It's entirely free.