Comment by akkartik

That is indeed a very incisive critique, but what it and OP and this thread in general suffer from is a fuzziness about threat models.

Driver protections in the OS prevent people who write popular software from remotely taking over large numbers of computers. They're not intended to protect against your laptop getting physically stolen.

The OP here, on the other hand, I'm still confused what precise threat model it's concerned about :)