Presumably, the manufacturer owes repair of the defect that they caused, nothing more, nothing less, and neither a broken sticker nor even any other damage is a

Presumably, the manufacturer owes repair of the defect that they caused, nothing more, nothing less, and neither a broken sticker nor even any other damage is a reason for that liability to go away--possibly unless the repair would be completely pointless given the state of the device. No clue about the details in the US, but that's how that usually should roughly work.