Your attempts at oversimplifying the example is crude at best.
Your attempts to evade the contradictions of your position are not masked with such remedial dismissals.
You have, at this point admitted that for all intents and purposes to the end user, there is no distinguishable difference between a blown engine which fails to perform, and a dead device which fails to perform. Once you were cornered into the "simple example" where your logic failed, you began contradicting yourself and throwing up irrelevant distractions to try and rationalize your belief.
Also you still not accepting that to kill a chip you have to literally disable it which is certainly possible via the clock config as one example.
The underlying requirement of your premises, is that every end user has the equivalent of the mechanic's knowledge on rebuilding the engine, for recovering the functionality of the end device. This is self-evidently false. Thus for all intents and purposes, to the general public, there is zero difference between the blown engine and the 'dead' device, as both can be "easily" fixed when one possesses the essential knowledge and the right tools but the average user does not possess either.
The contradiction is in your example. I adjusted the example to be more valid but you don't seem to be reading those posts and are as a result getting confused because your internal state isn't updated correctly.
The device does work vs. an engine that does not. Your example is invalid in its very premise. The device appears in windows, can be configured, is electrically still functional, ... (As in the engine which in your example which is the chip still works)
For all intensive purposes the only missing bit is the readme saying PID 0000 = counterfeit, tough luck and the user is now aware the device still works it is just a fake.
Your ignoring the fact the contradiction is with your example at which point I modified it to correct it and then you say I'm contradicting myself when it is in fact just you that are confused.
The device still works windows still detects it as (FTDI Vendor Detect, Unknown device which is true in every respect) and it does not require physical replacement of a 2 dollar bearing/component to bypass.
I don't understand how it can be classified as killed/broken/damaged in any way because it isn't.