The problem here isn't if you should run EDR or not it's that people need to take the risk and responsibilities seriously and the cure needs to to be better than the disease.
If you need to hand remote kernel level access over to a company it's in you to make sure they have the security, QA and basic competency to shoulder that responsibility.
And when it comes out that they don't even run or verify their code before deploying it to millions of machines all at once, it's on you for buying not vetting them.
Just like users should check files and where they come from before running them IT professionals need to do the same.
You just need better digital scales. As much as I love analog stuff digital scales have just become so damn good analog can't compete for anything needing any kind of precision.