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While 'bricked' is inaccurate (they are merely unsupported, with no way of fixing them when they fail), think of this case when someone says insisting on free software and the right to repair is merely "ideological".

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You've bought a $150k "toy". Assuming its price accurately reflects the amount of engineering expertise poured into it: how much expertise do you need yourself to repair it? How much is it going to cost to hire someone to do that for you? How much more expensive it would've been if it had to be designed for end-user repairability?

I'm all for right to repair, and of course the alternative is to just have a brick. But designing for repairability (and actually performing the repair) has its price tag, and may prove much less practical than we'd hope.

There's a step between making untamperable black-boxes, and designing for repairability: don't use anti-tampering measures, and make available the code, schematics, and documentation the company itself uses for repairs.

A locomotive or car also have a high amount of engineering and expertise poured into them, and that fosters a third-party maintenance industry. No one would accept a fully black box locomotive or car that only the original manufacturer can open and repair, for whatever they want to charge. We are becoming too comfortable with monopolies.

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