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Was able to build and test it. Interesting.
There is the problem with the size of normal data types.
But also with compound variables/pdos like an uint32 that is really 12 bits input and 20 bits of nothing. Can be handled separately in a hal component to create individual pins I guess, but adds to it.
The naming of the pins is horrible, but you have all the info from the drive so can be fixed.
It's easy to compare to the situation with lcec_conf that offers solutions to I think all situations.
But adds its own complexity and isn't ideal. Too many details often go wrong.
You made a start with the ethercat_twincat configurator, that looks like an appealing way forward.

For the Linuxcnc Raspberry Pi images just don't do dist-upgrade, it will break things, this has been proven.

You get get away without doing any kind of upgrade.

If you are worried about security, updates are only a small part of the picture. The first step should always be physical security, which should be the number one priority with a computer running a cnc machine.I'd take data loss over damage to a cnc machine any day of the week, you can't back up a cnc machine.