Pitching us against them has been the playbook of the epstein class since forever.

Bread and circus on repeat, our planet is a giant resort for the few and we are the serfvants

Not necessarily. It would be entirely possible of the manufacturer to implement the original fw in a fused memory and restore from that. Basically persistent uefi malware. One would probably notice it, but i wouldnt bet my life on that being true forever with the rate our tech is advancing

While this is nice, something like this with joypads is even better

partially closed source

I can’t think of a single scenario where this isn’t a red flag