"Allowing consumers to replace crap firmware is a way of dealing with that"
No, it's a way to allow them to install even crappier firmware idiots will make available on the internet "just to have fun". Never underestimate the number of idiots the internet can connect.
Radio spectrum is a shared resource, and or all the player play following the rules, or it will become a disaster - but anarcoids hoping hopelessly to turn a cheap device bought on ebay into another can't understand that.