It isn't more difficult because anyone is conspiring against you. Nothing in the passage you quote indicates this is a conspiracy, merely a change. Maybe it's

It isn't more difficult because anyone is conspiring against you. Nothing in the passage you quote indicates this is a conspiracy, merely a change. Maybe it's more difficult because electricity is invisible, the techniques require new knowledge, or you're not familiar with it. Or maybe it's as the article suggests - complex electronic machinery creates the possibility, not the necessity, of an manufacturer sealing everything from being repaired by individuals. Is it beyond comprehension that a new technology can give many advantages and offers a number of problems? That people who criticize completely sealed systems aren't always "back to the good old days" Luddites (notably, even the historical Luddites didn't conform to what Luddite has come to mean now).