An organization which exists exclusively to advocate for a type of program caring about programmability is not dumb. That seems... kinda obvious? They don't exist to rate the technical superiority or inferiority of hardware devices, they exist to advocate for the simple position that: if a device can be programmed, the user of that device ought to control the program on the device, not some company which happens to hold the copyright over the on-device program.

And if you do have hardware version 2, the FSF says you should at least never update your firmware.

Um... absolutely not? They say that running proprietary firmware represents an injustice (perpetrated by the copyright holders of the firmware, btw, not the user). Updating the firmware to free software would obviously be great in the eyes of the FSF; upgrading to proprietary firmware would be simply continuing the existing, unjust status quo. You appear to have completely made up this particular position.