Blame intellectual property theft. I'm sure there's a right to repair angle in there as well but my guess would be that it's mainly driven by IP. I had a frie

Blame intellectual property theft. I'm sure there's a right to repair angle in there as well but my guess would be that it's mainly driven by IP. I had a friend who worked on electronics about 20 years ago. Suddenly they were facing a flood of reverse engineered devices coming out of China. The build quality was lower than their official devices but it was hard for customers to tell the difference and they were undercutting them on price enough to crater the companies revenues. Enforcing patents and other IP was basically a non-starter even when they tracked down the shops in China. Eventually they ended up just partnering with them and selling the lower quality and cheaper versions of their devices because they couldn't compete and all the work they had done to design, test, prototype, etc was written off as a loss.