Tuner in F-droid is good. I've used several different android based tuner apps, and a couple Linux based tuner apps over the years and they've generally all been serviceable. Tuner is what I use at the moment.
I've had no luck getting the map to work on Ironfox on Graphene or Librewolf on Linux. It did load on Vanadium, despite saying "map source didn't initialize properly". Does it generally not work on Firefox based browsers?
As someone who also went to a good university and worked in tech, it boggles my mind that someone with that experience could claim not to have met a dumb person. I have to question OP's ability to judge intelligence. People from those social environments do at least have to develop the patina of not being a knuckle-dragger which some might be fooled by, but I've seen many cases of deep stupidity lurking behind that.
I would say there are multiple branches of this collaborative fiction with their own fandoms, and if you were to try to define what was "canon", those would have to be separate, mutually exclusive canons. The Kane pixels videos is only one of these and not even the first.
I don't know if this is true but I've heard yellow jackets get intoxicated on fermenting fruit and become mean drunks.