I agree, this is the key question. It seems like all the distros, and microsoft, need to coordinate on the "security generation", whenever grub (or other linux

I agree, this is the key question. It seems like all the distros, and microsoft, need to coordinate on the "security generation", whenever grub (or other linux boot component) releases an update or patch? Maybe that's an extra annoyance they didn't have before, so until now they just left that number alone, and kinda forgot about it?