This is tangential and doesn't reason with or negate the main point you're replying to in any way. Yes, John Deere does these things, but the reasoning provided

This is tangential and doesn't reason with or negate the main point you're replying to in any way. Yes, John Deere does these things, but the reasoning provided by parent for why softlocks are sometimes used in the context of performance restriction and warranty support is absolutely plausible and worthy of consideration all the same. We owe it to ourselves to take care not to confuse this conversation with that cause, and to consider these views rather than distracting and derailing from them.