Hardware attestation is like hardware DRM. It is intended to limit and restrict abundance. Abundance of clients (as a proxy for user attention) and abundance of copying, access and replay (as a proxy for "piracy"), resp.

It won't matter to the masses, it won't hamper "bad actors" because hackers will find flaws instantly.

It's just enshitfication.

I hope you're right. I truly do.

> hackers will find flaws instantly

Yeah.

https://tee.fail/

The ability to circumvent these cryptographic attestations and pretend to be a "pristine" corporate owned device while in fact being free will be a key strategic capability in the future.

They will no doubt pour billions into improving the technology though. I'm not sure if such a capability can be maintained over the long term. We don't have the resources.