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That there are examples of something being done doesn't mean that it's a practical system. Just saying "Here's a hex editor. Have at it" isn't meaningfully supporting a right to repair.

And yet it would be better than the current situation where the hex editor is a copyright infringement.

It would be an improvement, but I think it's closer to an update of first-sale doctrine than it is to a meaningfully supported right to repair.

There are reasonably good decompilers already, and the right to use them being added to the law would probably lead to improving them.

No doubt. Are you referring to using tools like ida?