Well, yes. Or at least until they shape up and no longer introduce an unknown failure mode to all products using those chips. The cost for a company to use tho

Well, yes. Or at least until they shape up and no longer introduce an unknown failure mode to all products using those chips. The cost for a company to use those chips are too great now. And that result is purely FTDI's response. They could have taken other avenues: Windows Syslog, GUI messages, warnings. Instead they chose to do a path that we plebes would have been arrested and charged with the CFAA for doing (vandalizing hardware over a network).