With us now having a RHEL-for-Edge and even OCP-for-edge (not yet) product, we do see customers deploying OCP into far away locations with slow and low bandwidth connections.

Therefore they also try to reduce bandwidth by creating smaller images. That even might include images no longer having a RPM/YUM/... database.

Therefore image signing or binary scanning might get a new push and should also be considered as additional things to consider in ACS...