I believe you hit the nail on the head. Many folk with experience have a different perspective than the folk writing this stuff. Ignoring their perspective dooms you to repeating their mistakes.

The Unix way isnt some holy grail holy shit perfect way. Its the simplest. Simple means its simpler to unfk. Because it will get fk'd.

Rendering someones hardware DOA is a really bad thing. Leaving that as a vector of attack is irresponsible at best.

If Redhat leaves this in expect legal issues.