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This is why the right to repair is so important... So we can add thing to stuff, so we don't have to buy new stuff.
"Stuff 3: now with 100% proprietary parts"
*not available in the European Union.
*not available outside of the US
*available without stuff outside the EU
We might still buy new stuff, because adding things to existing can be expensive (in terms time and effort). I just spent hours (and I'm not done) looking for PC parts to utilize my old CPU in a home server. If I didn't have very specific hardware requirements I'd just chuck it in the bin and buy a pre-built mini PC. And for most people I'd imagine that's the case. People don't want to tinker, they just want things to work. Right to repair is very much right to tinker. It suits people like me, but it's not going to matter to people like my wife, who would much rather buy a new laptop than make the current one not work at a snails pace.
Don't get me wrong, right to repair is important and I 100% support it, but my point is that it's only important to us. The average Joe will never care and will much rather buy a new thing than make the existing one like the new one.
It's supposed to also help the average person by letting repair shops actually be able to repair older devices so you don't end up being forced to buy a new device because the company says it will cost more to repair it then to just buy a new one as a way to force you to pay more to buy something new.