Yeah JIT is a bit suspicious. I also think there is some planned obsolescence that is making the inventory depreciation so scary the bean counters to begin with

Yeah JIT is a bit suspicious. I also think there is some planned obsolescence that is making the inventory depreciation so scary the bean counters to begin with. e.g. microcontrols don't require lots of processing power, and if embedded software wasn't complete shit it would be easy to keep portable so there is supply chain flexibility.