1. Regulation can align profit motives with user interests
“Clearly, there is a thing missing here: Regulations. If you have strong regulations on how you can make money, you cannot sustainably have biz antagonize user.” – choeger
“Regulations. If you have strong regulations on how you can make money, you cannot sustainably have biz antagonize user.” – jjk166
2. User‑first mindset is eroding; firms increasingly hostile to end‑user repair
“I like the final conclusion. And sadly I don’t feel like anything changed for the better on this topic since 2023.” – 3form
“Repair shop owners also don’t enjoy work which is unnecessarily difficult.” – carefree‑bob
“Hyundai does not want people to be able to service their own cars, they want you to take the car to a dealer.” – [author not named]
3. Poor‑quality, hard‑to‑maintain code is largely a human problem; LLMs merely reproduce it
“Humans write TONS of awful but working code too.” – alexpotato
“Which is great until you have to make changes to this kind of code, not to mention a massive refactoring.” – majorbugger