My comment was intended to address what scenarios are available to the OP in respect of his Librem 14 rather than to address anything about RYF. So I didn’t mention RYF at all other than implicitly to make the side observation that
I think the opinion expressed in the article is controversial, in the sense that there are differing opinions in this forum, basically relating to the question: Is an invisible blob better than a visible blob?
My own opinion is that blobs are bad, blobs are fundamentally limiting of your freedom, blobs undermine the value of your investment in the hardware. The location of the blob is a secondary consideration.
There is also a difference between a component that stores the blob inside the component and provides no means to update the blob and one that does provide some means of updating the blob. (Annoyingly, it is not unheard of that the only way of updating the internal blob is from Microsoft Windows. So to update one small internal blob requires the use of one giant blob.)
That may be true but, as I said, I think reality just caught up with the original M.2 card that Purism was using. In other words, in my opinion, you have to pick your battles.
I would guess that Purism doesn’t want to maintain inventory of the old card now, or to have to offer 3 choices at order time (no card, new card, old card) - so the option right now is to order with no card, source your own old card, and away you go.