It's called an oligarchy. The people have no other choice than violence if they want to be heard. Maybe you don't live in a failing democracy like we do. But we do, and we know that if we want change, we can't use legal means
The thing is that symbolic murders can have consequences so good they greatly outweight the bad action. That's why we killed our king in france. Sure killing is bad, and he wasn't that guilty as he was just dumb, but killing him changed the world for good
Whatever distribution you end up using, I would recommend you take a look at Ansible. It's a way to describe all your config and store it in a git repository. It might be overkill for you, but if you like to make things right, you should enjoy it
I have been creating ad removal patches for 2 apps this week. Revanced is truly amazing