I don't doubt it, in the article the dog washing company specifically said that their design firm already had a solution that just required new PCBs. That is n

I don't doubt it, in the article the dog washing company specifically said that their design firm already had a solution that just required new PCBs. That is not sympathetic, that's very normal. What you're describing is sympathetic and hard to deal with. Their example was lucky about it and still ended up somehow quoted in the story.