[R0b0t1]

Still smells like bullshit. Let the customer decide. Who cares if it was validated? Why was it even included? Just put it behind a yes-I-really-mean-it-switch so nobody uses it by accident.

[kadoban]

There's not many great places for such a switch, and even then, then you have to validate _that_ behavior. It's mostly just not worth it.

[pantalaimon]

Several motherboard vendors added that very switch in UEFI (some even with the option to force an older microcode version AFAIK) before it was disabled in hardware by Intel