It feels very much like a knee-jerk reaction. Oh no, they're taking our wifi away, instead of figuring out why the regulations are proposed, and why there are u

It feels very much like a knee-jerk reaction. Oh no, they're taking our wifi away, instead of figuring out why the regulations are proposed, and why there are unintended consequences far beyond a little noise at the edges of the wifi spectrum. Additionally, they don't want to realize that like you described, the cheapest way is to put in a radio that doesn't need a binary blob to operate, because router makers are sure as hell not going to pay for the expensive re-certification process after every software update.