Sure, the consequence of our IP regime is that there is a temptation to design to milk those failures as a revenue source.
With a different IP regime one could imagine incentives that allowed a "right to repair" where IP violation done as a part of a owner commissioned repair were widely accepted or a manufacturer forfeit's the IP when they cease stocking the part defined as "admit they don't stock it" or "do not have it in stock for 6 total months of a year"
With a different IP regime one could imagine incentives that allowed a "right to repair" where IP violation done as a part of a owner commissioned repair were widely accepted or a manufacturer forfeit's the IP when they cease stocking the part defined as "admit they don't stock it" or "do not have it in stock for 6 total months of a year"