Three questions if you don't mind (and feel free to speculate yourself or anyone else):

1. Many features have options to be disabled (e.g. bios settings). Why doesn't this, even to this day?

2. You may have been involved in implementation, but do you know why it still exists on every board regardless of backlash?

3. I am a bit ignorant, does the chip fabbing process justify putting this on every board instead of just on enterprise ones (especially since you can consider it a feature worth upcharging for)?

Pardon my skepticism, but its continued use without the ability to disable speaks to ulterior motives regardless of original implementation design.