A) is simply not going to happen on any system running a Free OS to begin with.
The bugaboos of A) users being somehow forced by a manufacturer to upgrade the firmware or B) that they might somehow download a backdoored firmware later have not come to pass.
It only means that bugs cannot be patched and Free replacements cannot be developed and distributed. The fact that firmware is unchangeable is not a benefit to the user. Then it's "just hardware." Even better if it's a ROM because then it's especially "just hardware." There's a *strong* contingent in Free Software would prefer it one way vs the other: that uploading firmware onto a device is bad, but it's OK if the devices is running the firmware off of internal storage. They just stopped shipping the firmware on-device, meaning it now needs to be uploaded. A point brought up that I don't think is often properly addressed: A lot of devices have had onboard firmware longer than drivers have been uploading firmware onto them.
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