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No, the gist of what's being said is that there's no point in people endlessly whining about a mistake which Amazon made, admitted to, and put right, years ago. What does it achieve?
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Good question.
To the best of my knowledge, and I have been wrong before, they only know what is in your account when you buy from them. Items that are sideloaded are not listed in you account, at least for Amazon, so they would not know that they are there.
I know that there were people with the Orwell mess who had removed the DRM from the book in question and that book stayed on their device. I also know that there were people who had saved the book with DRM on their computers who reloaded it to their device and had no problems keeping it on their device. There were many posts discussing that at the time. This tells me that Amazon cannot see what you sideloaded and hence cannot remove it and that Amazon did not have a recurring script to remove the book if it reappeared unaltered on peoples Kindles.
I assume that this is the same for BN, Sony, and Kobo. They know what you have bought from them and can touch something that you bought from them that is on your device but they cannot touch sideloaded objects. The only way to avoid the possibility that one of the big four, Amazon, BN, Sony, and Kobo might one day be stupid enough to reach in and remove something again is to buy an e-reader that is not tied to one of the major book stores. The next alternative is to store your books on your computer so that if someone has a massive brain fart you have a copy of the book in question. A third alternative is to not use the WiFi on your system so you don't have to worry about a company being stupid and removing something from your device.