In this analogy, the lightbulb manufacturer can't build a 1000lm bulb for a comparable price once they account for the overheating issue. The technology won't

In this analogy, the lightbulb manufacturer can't build a 1000lm bulb for a comparable price once they account for the overheating issue. The technology won't exist for, say, five years. No other manufacturer can do that either. They can give my money back, but then I still don't have a lightbulb. What am I going to do, buy the same one again? One thing you might say is that this change happened even to lightbulbs I've had for 5+ years. I can buy a functional 1000lm bulb for the same price now, due to the march of technology! The problem is that I've been using the lightbulb for five years already. If you use a lightbulb for five years, and then it fails entirely, the manufacturer is never going to give you a full refund: why would they give you a full refund for a lesser failure mode? The choice is not between silently letting manufacturers cripple stuff, and having non-crippled stuff. The choice is between silently letting manufacturers cripple stuff, and loudly letting manufacturers cripple stuff. You're welcome to do the latter, but your stuff is still going to be crippled.