I mean, Secure Boot does actually help defend against evil maid attacks if paired with FDE. Someone can't just fuck with your /boot (CVE-2016-4484 nonwithstanding) to do naughty things with your system if you have Secure Boot enabled. Does that fit with most people's threat model? I dunno, probably not. It does actually do something useful though.

My work computer has it enabled and I feel better for it. The issue described in the article is easily dealt with if you just keep up with your firmware updates using fwupd.