It's so telling that ASUS is pretending nothing went wrong, never informed customers of the hack and continued using the compromised signing keys:
motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/
It's a clear demonstration that they're completely untrustworthy. It fits the experiences I had with them.
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I once accidentally triggered a bug in an ASUS motherboard via UEFI nonsense which bricked it. I wasn't looking for bugs or anything like that. They denied it was broken and sent me back my RMA'ed board with fresh BIOS chips, claiming they did nothing. The bug was never fixed.
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Chromebooks and Macbooks are among the only options with decent firmware security and updates. Chromebooks support verified boot and A/B updates along with the OS having a meaningful security model unlike most alternatives. It supports isolated Linux VMs: chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/doc.