If the drive itself doesn't support it how can the interal usb controller in an external drive compensate? At best it seems it could hide the error or do some h

If the drive itself doesn't support it how can the interal usb controller in an external drive compensate? At best it seems it could hide the error or do some hacky compensation for it. At best perhaps it's a method of enforcing product segmantation - preventing users from buying & shucking what are strangely cheaper external drives (discounted so that WD can sell you (or sell 'you' via telemetry) some value addon software. I don't see a technical reason for how a drive could physical be unable to support this SCSI command.