I understand that this comment comes from personal experience, and I appreciate the value of that viewpoint and experience. As a liver transplant recipient and a liver disease researcher, I have to add that the severe disease that puts people on the edge of transplant (or life altering implant, in this case) is not easily generalizable.

There was no saving my liver, which failed because of Hepatitis C due to tainted blood product. I lived day to day before transplant worried that I might bleed out, one of the horrible ways liver disease can kill you or knock you down. At the same time, I read liver support groups where people discussed many different "liver health" techniques, some sensible and some not. Some gave benefit to the sick, some gave hope to the hopeless, and some provided dangerous diversions to people whose only real hope was to get evaluated for transplant and accepted on a waiting list.

After dealing with the trauma of severe disease and the sick life-and-death game of organ allocation, one of the hardest mental changes I had to make post-transplant was realizing that those days were done. I might face other health challenges, but they would be different ones. The story here is different: people being plunged back into darkness not because their devices failed, but because of tech startup level problems. It's pretty cruel, almost dystopic.