You are right about the situation today. But the question is - how do we change this situation? Because there must be a way, since there are a lot of tools th

You are right about the situation today. But the question is - how do we change this situation? Because there must be a way, since there are a lot of tools that can be combined for solution -crowdsourcing, including crowdsourcing engineers analysis, the easiness which one can create a niche retailer, the rich chinese manufacturing ecosystem(where there are even small companies making electric cars), the ability to order customer parts to replace the weak link in a product before breakage or just do preventive strengthening with some glue(I.e. earphone hinges) , etc...