Often the answer this group offers is yet another third party solution that is popular at the time. Then they give these tools the high level of permissions they need to function. Cycle repeats.
That book contains no corporate backing/advertising.
How do you think governments find these vulnerabilities? Accidentally, under the couch cushions?
What you actually seem to be proposing- in practice- is a ban on government-funded vulnerability research.
To be completely honest, I don't have a concrete answer to this question yet because I haven't finished the book and didn't give the hard think it requires.
However, I can see and both parties' perspective and reasoning. I just need to give these perspectives a good rub with my own views.