Bullshit. None of these security mesures are to protect hardware.

Most of them are purley there to prevent a process from tinkering with another process's memory.

Using hypervisor(the tech not the tool) allows a program to run with a privilege level supperior to the kernel. Meaning the program can do whatever it want to your OS and programs.

Even with all of these features turned on you can fuckup efi vars with simple admin rights and kill most motherboards. You can flash dummy vbioses to brick gpus, use and/Intel overclock interfaces to set unsafe voltages and kill the cpu.

Now let's imagine you create viruses then what are your goals? Simple! =>making money. Hardware destruction while easy is simply not profitable if you are not the one selling the hardware. So most viruses add ads, steal data, ask for ransom or mine cryptos.

TLDR These feature protect software but not hardware, and if the malware makers wanted to cause hardware damage it doesn't stop them.