I think you are confusing two different problems with repair (the article does not do a great job distinguishing them). 1) Difficulty to repair because of phys

I think you are confusing two different problems with repair (the article does not do a great job distinguishing them). 1) Difficulty to repair because of physical design, e.g. goods that are physically challenging to open and modify or require specialized tools. This is often a reasonable side-effect of making devices as small or light as possible. I.e. making it physically difficult to repair. 2) Erecting legal barriers to repair by asserting that people may not legally attempt to repair or modify things they "own", using DMCA or copyright laws. I.e., making it illegal even to try. As far as I know, the right to repair movement is centered around #2 and does not address #1. If it does address #1, I would guess it's only for cases where a company purposely makes something physically more difficult to repair for a reason unrelated to functionality, e.g. invents a new fastener with no functional advantage over a screw but that requires a multi-thousand dollar device to open. But again, right-to-repair is almost exclusively about #2 as far as I know. (edit) actually, a lot of people in the thread are making the same conflation.