Thanks for the example, although those webpage doesn't mention anything about disabling Intel ME.
It was more about complaining that some products like those DON'T have it enabled properly and the lack of it working could cause issues later.
Not so much as IME good vs IME bad but a IME is broken here and the manufactures are not admitting it and if Intel does something that matters with it later you could own a paperweight. I don't use those products normally, they would just be an emergency buy for a customer so I jotted down a note and 100% forgot about it till this came up.
But from what I remember a lot of the industrial SBC do not have it enabled / working properly.
Since when I am sourcing these kinds of things for customers it's usually more of a WE ARE DOWN WHAT CAN WE GET NOW situation, as opposed to lets figure out what is good here situation, none of it was really important to me at the time. I'll check if I have anything else about them, but I doubt it.
-Dave