I don’t agree about the “damage being done”: there’s no evidence that a cooldown is itself harmful. The worst thing it can do to you is deliver some updates to you slower-than-instantly.
I agree cooldown is not harmful in general. What I intended to say is that people (mostly) only know a security company is not trustable because they once failed to detect a malware package, and the reason people know a package is malware is that it has caused damaged to at least someone.