Its apparently not that uncommon a move, as according to what I’ve watched about it, it allows the company using the trick to go public without going through the checks and balances that the FTC usually does.
What is uncommon is that they fucked it up at least twice that I can recall. They were supposed to go public summer 2023.
In windows 10 you can reenable it, but you have dig a bit in the power management control panel to do so.
Its unfortunate that this thinking has bled over to Linux.