If the attack surface is large enough and the duration of the experiment long enough it'll return to baseline soon enough I think. It's a reasonable enough compromise. After all if the maintainers are not already considering that they might be under attack I'd argue that something is wrong with the system, a zero-day in the kernel would be invaluable indeed.

And well, if the maintainers become more vigilant in the long run it's a win/win in my book.