I wouldn't say it "works" very well at all currently. With the large influx of users and the no moderation design is making it an insane target for spam now
Heh, this happened in the UK too when they introduced new shapes of coins for already-existing currency. Just like the UK, Japan businesses have been forewarned for some time and this is mostly clickbait nonsense.
I'm kinda surprised this entirely forgot to mention the SteamDeck. I'd love to know how much of an impact that had, considering apparently 3 million units have been sold (according to Valve). Alas, how many of those users know they are running Linux is another question.