> How are they in any sense whatsoever still working with a company or process that would 'paint over the plugs'? Because there is no alternative supplier that

> How are they in any sense whatsoever still working with a company or process that would 'paint over the plugs'? Because there is no alternative supplier that could supply the same components in a shorter-than-years timeframe. And they don’t want to halt all production as it would bankrupt the company. To the HN crowd, this is like AWS becoming broken and unreliable, but your entire build and architecture has AWS baked in. Moving to Azure or Google or whatever would take years of engineering and data migration. So you paper over the holes as best you can to keep the lights on.