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Hardware weaknesses are being exploited right now by High Strength Attackers in intelligence services and stealthy contractors. The TAO supports this. Additionally, there were even malware in the past that used CPU errata for obfuscation. So, we can't ignore this.

On top of it, there's dozens of designs in academia and even less risky options in industry that counter most of this stuff with various tradeoffs. So, anyone that wants to build something better has quite the options. The problems are literally there for backwards compatibility and avoiding costs. Far as I can tell.