> This is part of an unsettling trend where companies prefer to keep users in the dark about the underlying tech of their products I think for a variety of rea

> This is part of an unsettling trend where companies prefer to keep users in the dark about the underlying tech of their products I think for a variety of reasons you cannot equate Boeing with, dunno, tech startups and IoT makers. The history, culture, and regulatory environment in commercial aviation is very different from "normal consumer tech". (In other words, even if there were a superficial similarity here, it would not constitute part of or evidence for some sort of overarching trend affecting both normal consumer trend and commercial aviation.)