That statement is of course many years old. The devices that were developed and released later already had the correct
backup bootloader from the factory so it does not need to be upgraded.
From wiki: The backup RouterBOOT version can not be older than v3.24 version. A special package is provided to upgrade the backup RouterBOOT (DANGEROUS).
And: Newer devices will have this new backup loader already installed at the factory. https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:RouterBOARD_settings#Protected_bootloader