It's mostly a matter of corporate/government politics more than technology. And those politics are not going to change unless serious political action (read: la

It's mostly a matter of corporate/government politics more than technology. And those politics are not going to change unless serious political action (read: lawmaking) forces it to be so. It's in a similar vein as "right to repair" or whatever. At the end of the day, if you don't have a datasheet and the vendor gives you the finger, you're always going to be running a rat race against them, struggling to support 10 year old hardware with free alternatives, and they'll always win because they control the playing field. Further analysis of this phenomena ("what is the root cause of this attitude, and why does our society allow it?") would require actually criticizing and analyzing software development in the grander context of workforce politics over the past, say, 40 to 50 years. Spoiler alert: doing this will probably make you depressed.