Don’t discount the nature of the business, a lot of the low level code may never get updated, or even be capable of updates, it’s burned into ROMs and the only

Don’t discount the nature of the business, a lot of the low level code may never get updated, or even be capable of updates, it’s burned into ROMs and the only thing that might keep their business afloat is the fact they squeezed a bit better performance out of otherwise common parts that one big factory is using to make webcams or other widgets for dozens of indivisible companies selling their own products. It’s unfortunate that they fear competition so greatly they refuse to even document their external interfaces because that might make it slightly easier for someone to work out how their system works, but I don’t fault their decision making.