Nobody will probably see this, but this is my take on the undertone I get from reading this:

"Manufacturers are lazy, and hardware/driver implementations are often buggy and not sufficiently restrictive. Lobbying the manufacturers didn't work[citation impossible], so we might need to block DD-WRT et al. on devices that are sufficiently enough that they freely allow firmware like DD-WRT (and OpenWRT) unmitigated access to the RF chip's parameters via an insecure driver."

Of course they had to be much nicer and much more opaque than that, so everyone got confused.