Any more NUC users with unusable watchdog here?

hey and sorry for the "a bit off topic" post here. I use Proxmox successfully and were on NUC5PPYH so far and happy. My HA setup is working great.
But NUC5PPYH is limited to 8GB RAM and in fact EOL so I decided to start upgrading and so I ended up on NUC8i5BEH2 ... but here the watchdog is not working because of Intel BIOS crap ... and now Intel answered that no support will come because

is not supported by the Intel® NUC Kit NUC8i5BEH
and the ROI is not enough for the feature...

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