I'm not defending anything. I just don't like condemning one thing without knowing the overall picture. All the comments I saw were like a bubble of identical o

I'm not defending anything. I just don't like condemning one thing without knowing the overall picture. All the comments I saw were like a bubble of identical opinions and people circlejerking about the awfulness of dealerships without any real substance. I sort of expect more from HN. I'm not an expert about the auto industry or the auto market or the regulations and their history and I'm in no position to tell anybody here they're wrong. I just wish people would consider the wider context. Why do these regulations exist? What benefits are there? Downsides? What changes if these regulations are changed or removed? What regulatory changes can be made to improve the state of dealerships? Maybe allowing manufacturers to run their own dealerships would create more competition and put downward pressure on prices and improve quality of service across the industry. How do you deal with the threat of manufacturers edging out all private dealerships so that they're the only option? Will the market eventually become worse because of a lack of competition among dealerships? How do you ensure manufacturers don't treat independent dealerships unfairly and exploit the vertical integration in an anticompetitive way? How do you prevent regulatory capture through manufacturers? All I see here is "dealerships bad". And yes, the examples I've seen are bad and most things I've heard about dealerships really suck. But the best solution isn't necessarily to get rid of independent ones. Maybe it is, maybe it's not (imo, pretty likely not).