I mean you could sign it yourself. Or donate to a maintainer so they can sign it. Open source or other community windows drivers usually aren’t signed unless they have donors paying for it, certs aren’t free :)
If anything it’s on windows for not having a way to allow just one unsigned driver.
You can, but central units aren’t great right now. Mini-splits are much better. Price is lower, cheaper to install, regulation between rooms is more even, and you can turn off unused rooms to save energy.
Not sure why the market has moved this way but it is what it is. That unit probably is underspeced
Mini-splits are functionally excellent but have a difficult time with the Wife Factor. So far most of the decorative "solutions" are rather poor. I'm sure over time, as they become more popular, people will come up with ideas for how to work them into the home's interior design, but for now, many find them too utilitarian in appearance.
I was looking into this and one factor is that you still need hot water. So with mini-splits your options are either resistive water heating or having a gas boiler as well. I haven’t seen any systems which do mini-splits and also heat a hot water tank.