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Rebooting is the only way to take advantage of improvements that are provided as kernel updates. It's perfectly reasonable to reboot sometimes to fix certain problems.
Windows is annoying because "did you try rebooting" is somehow supposed to be a solution to everything, from kernel updates to general windows userland updates, to "a program I installed says I have to reboot before I can use it", to "your computer is slow today, maybe you went too long without rebooting".
Compared to all that, "just reboot whenever the kernel or video drivers are updated" is a relief for how rare it is. Any other program can be reloaded by just... restarting the program or at *worst* logging out then back in which takes much less time than rebooting.
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