You can tell how passionate a company is with their products by their Linux support. That means no one there cares enough to push hard for Linux support. Even Dropbox has a Linux client.

I recently did this, and it was fucking annoying to create the app in Google's Cloud. Incredibly laggy (5-10 seconds until clicks register), loading times of up to a minute between navigations.

This was on a very beefy PC, I suspect the issue is that I used Firefox.

i feel like the linux userbase is already fairly low

Linux desktops now outnumber mac desktops, apparently.

Even if what you said was true, i think the better choice would be to go in the direction of simplicity, not the direction that favours segregation.