I’m sure many people would be much more willing to go into the office if they got paid for their commute. Even better if they got the pollution from their commute offset. Nothing lazy about wanting to be compensated for things you’re doing for your employer.
They’re mostly breaking the GUI of game mode, which causes it to restart the game mode GUI. The underlying OS isn’t really affected – you should be able to SSH into an affected system or force boot into desktop mode.