It's not really intended to be run as a standalone distro (there's a fedora version though) and (afaiu) the point is to understand the bootloader process and stuff like GPU support from linux.

I know company policy moves glacially with these things (been there, got the faded t-shirt!) so yea, you're probably right there. Technically you could probably still use linux MDM instead of MacOS for mgmt, but getting that past IT is nigh on impossible imho also.