They didn't intend it, but they should have since they'd probably end up with a better end-user experience ala Rockbox/LineageOS. The community added some cool features and worked around some glaring bugs until Mazda clamped down by specifically nuking the mods on updates. God forbid anyone embarrass them by making their crappy software better, like pausing a stream when "Mute" was hit instead of letting the stream run while muted. How about this? If you used a USB stick full of music it showed the files in FAT order, not sorted by filename or ID3 tags. It would also just randomly forget the resume point, and revert to playing the "first" file on the disk. So instead of Amon Amarth blasting my ears in this case, I had to both create a file named "0000Silence.mp3", and run a special command after every disk update to rewrite the FAT so the FAT order equaled alphabetical order.

I think you're assuming more awareness and communication between groups than probably exists.

This sets the precedent that if you find a way to improve your life using Mazda, you have to worry about Mazda going out of their way to break you.

Like, the literal least Mazda could have done to support their users here was nothing, and they found a way to do worse than that.

Sony is still on my boycott list for all the crap they've pulled in the last decade, so yeah it does make sense.

I said I was pissed, not resolving a differential equation. Feelings don’t need to make sense in order to be true.