I'm not advocating for filling out the whole insides with epoxy. (Quite the contrary, I think it'd be great to have better markings on components, and have data

I'm not advocating for filling out the whole insides with epoxy. (Quite the contrary, I think it'd be great to have better markings on components, and have data sheets - and schematics - for them readily available. I mean it's ridiculous that the whole IP protection legal machinery is justified in the name of incentivizing invention and new works, but in practice all we got is cheaper and cheaper copies/derivatives of the same noname things.)