> Of the many ways to verify a product isn't counterfeit, they just had no choice but to pick the one that takes away all control from the consumer. Meanwhile phones solved this ages ago - a "bootloader unlocked" message at boot. But NVIDIA is tactically ignorant of that possibility.

A phone has a boot chain, where it's likely the first 2 stages can't be unlocked without keys or a soc exploit, these stages have full access to the display, thus these stages can show a warning on the screen, it's not comparable to GPU firmware.

There's likely many reasons why Nvidia locks their cards down, but I doubt that preventing forgery isn't one of them, there's no lie.