Small updates are fine but I find it a bit deceptive to increase the version number from 15 to 16 just for this

The answer to your title is yes, it is unhealthy.

Or just leak the signing keys like they did with MSI. That quote describes the theory, but there are tons of shit-for-brains humans that can screw it up. The UEFI attack surface is much bigger than it has any right to be.

There can’t be an argument for or against it because there’s no clear generally accepted definition of what it means to be sentient.