[benbenolson]

What do you expect them to do, instead? Simply not mention any alternatives? It's absurdly clear from the article that downgrading will leave you vulnerable, so anyone who actually cares is going to read the one (1) paragraph required to determine that.

[eyelidlessness]

I expect them to not explicitly endorse bypassing security measures they deemed appropriate to ship. But, you didn’t need to ask that, I thought it was quite clear that was my expectation.

[ars]

It's not clear except to programmers. Non programmers will assume the new driver version introduced the vulnerability.

A hardware vulnerability is not in most non-programmers radar, they won't consider it.