Keep in mind that a lot of these "software fixes" are just perverse caricatures of NASA-esque "coding around broken hardware" exercises wherein they change some

Keep in mind that a lot of these "software fixes" are just perverse caricatures of NASA-esque "coding around broken hardware" exercises wherein they change something so that an imminent failure is staved off until after the warranty period. The article mentions this with regard to battery fires but they kind of downplay how prevalent this is (probably because there's no good stats).