Does the Linux kernel get bigger and bigger as more hardware support is added to it? Does that mean everyone running Linux technically has a ton of kernel code that doesn’t apply to their machine?

Pretty much title.

I’m just trying to understand these things a little better. Am I understanding it correctly that kernels contain a ton of drivers —> so they might have 100 drivers for different laptop speakers even though each individual user only needs 1 but they have to support everybody?

Does that imply on your machine you have a ton of unused kernel code? Or is there some process that removes the unused driver code?

It’s all so confusing to me man haha