Creating more burden on the company side to keep up is the point -- feature, not a bug. Who do you think lobbies against a federal-level pro-consumer bill? Hin

Creating more burden on the company side to keep up is the point -- feature, not a bug. Who do you think lobbies against a federal-level pro-consumer bill? Hint: it's not the consumers. The risk of a huge patchwork of not-completely-overlapping state level bills is one of the few checks consumers have against federal-level regulatory capture: if it's between a single set of federal-level rules vs. a patchwork of state-by-state rules, the profitable move becomes "okay, lets just let them have the federal-level rules." The failure modes, of course, are: - a completely-defanged federal rule which is worse than no rule (right-to-repair has continued to suffer this) - further consolidation: if it's expensive to do business in multiple states, only the companies with the deepest pockets can continue to grow Personally, though, my money is still on a growing patchwork of state laws will eventually necessitate a good-enough federal law.