As the Hacker News comments say, this seems like a sensible default: when faced with an ARM processor running Linux but not Android, it's probably a Raspberry Pi. That there's a few users running Linux on Apple Silicon is more likely something they did not think of or too small a group to care about rather than intently degrading their experience.
(I only skimmed so please correct me where I'm wrong, just didn't want to leave this headline on Lemmy with no comments)