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> It's fundamentally the problem I have with how CVEs are reported and handled in general.

Yes, its more like a popularity contest.

But secure boot stopped(or stops) a whole bunch of driver/rootkit exploits, which was a big thing in the late 2000s. It means that a random driver that is inserted by some script kiddie raises a whole bunch of warnings, which it wouldnt have done before.

We have come a long way since windows 2000



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