[IAmEveryone]

That's a lot of fancy words for essentially restating that old adage about three million parts being required to launch a rocket, all of them being delivered by the cheapest bidder.

And yet, these rockets (mostly) got off the ground quite safely!

Because these statistical vulnerabilities are rather obvious, and it isn't quite just the "cheapest bidder", and because their parts are tested, and because people took care to allow for 2 million of those 3 million parts to fail without disaster being inevitable.

The risks of remote-bricking counterfeits are rather obvious, indeed.

But it's just as trivially obvious that it is intended to protect the supply chain. Or, for the cynical: that its intend to protect these companies' profits is aligned with protecting the supply chain.

It's a trade-off, unlikely to have a single, generic best answer.