Given that most drivers are software written by hardware companies and, as soon as the device is sold, are just a liability, is this really going to be a huge barrier? How often do drivers get updated, say 1 or 2 years post release?
Same thing as many non-subscription wireless routers.
Sure, they can unilaterally kill any software on their platform, it's perhaps an important thing to note about it and other platforms where this is true. (Answering questions of ownership and user rights that inherently arise from this and other similar facts are left as an exercise to the reader). However, that also comes at the cost of disabling the hardware that the driver serves, at least until it's fixed.
I've had to use VBA many times to work around abhorrent user controls that prevented work from being done.