This would be really bad for consumers' security in light of the current fashion of deploying poor quality firmware full of bugs and dropping support for a prod

This would be really bad for consumers' security in light of the current fashion of deploying poor quality firmware full of bugs and dropping support for a product after it has been on the market for a couple of months. I thought that the linux-wifi people had made some good efforts at regulatory compliance by signing the rules list. While this doesn't nearly make breaking the rules impossible, it makes it enough of a pain to do so that many people won't. The FCC could then go after bad actors who distribute modified blobs with one of those "Notice of Proposed Forfeiture: $25,000" actions the way they sometimes do with CB radio amplifier clowns, rude ham operators, and those pirate FM transmitter hoons who seem to be competing in a contest to demonstrate the worst engineering practices.