updating auto-boot option to 'false' broke my macbook

My macbook (16" M2 Max) is no longer able to boot after running `sudo nvram auto-boot=false`. Now when pressing the power button (or opening the lid, for that matter), a message is displayed directing me to support.apple.com/mac/restore

My question is:

• Why is this feature so locked-down as to be completely inconfigurable?
• Why does an nvram setting from previous generations of macbook being changed cause the machine to be effectively bricked when modifying this setting to `false`?

For context, this was done in an attempt to disable the auto-boot upon lid open feature, which currently interferes with the practice of opening the lid to see if the computer is on.