I appreciate the statement FTDI put out on their forum site.
It is the only action to take: Remove the destructive code but refuse to work with counterfeit devices.
However the damage is done.
At our today's engineering meeting we got a good analogy of what FTDI did:
It is like the shopkeeper who knows you for 10+ years suddenly points his gun at you saying "if you don't steal you have nothing to fear".
Sure you would think "WTF?"

Well at least the shopkeeper has put the gun away now, saying "If you steal I won't talk to you anymore"
Sure I am fine with that.
All the FTDI chips we purchased the past year (around 17K units in total) went through their official sales network,
so the risk is almost 0. Phew...
I am still not happy.... but....whatever