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It seems more likely to me that a bad actor would simply steal your functioning tool at that point. Especially since they'd have to be fairly close to it to rewrite the embedded chip's instructions.
We probably won't ever know for sure, but if, after two years (in the case of Home Depot), we've not heard any horror stories from their tool customers, then I'd have to assume that their rollout of "hardware drm" has had a negligible effect on customers. Either that, or there were so many problems they had to silently abandon the idea. The latter doesn't seem likely to me since there's 2023 reports of Lowes rolling out a similar (but not bluetooth) implementation.
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