> When I buy a device, I don't want a perpetual, tethered relationship with the manufacturer in order to work the device.

Yes, but all the manufacturers want you in that relationship with them, and the technology of "internet" has finally given them that ability.

It's just a reminder that capitalism doesn't produce the best goods for consumers, it only produces the ones that are just not shitty enough that people keep buying them.

No matter how good a product is, the market will inevitably enshittify it to optimally conform to market incentives.