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The issue is everything is a race to the bottom. It is designed for cheap manufacturing and a cost adjusted failure rate. And the manufacturer never has to deal with the tonnes of trash it produces.
Right to service is a far better concept than right to repair.
The problem really is right there "designed for cheap manufacturing and a cost adjusted failure rate", it is geared up for their benefit, the cost to the consumer just gets more and more each year, the true benefits of such advancements never make their way through to the end consumer.
And isn't the "Right to service" just another way of saying the right to repair. By repairing you are regaining the service that the repaired item was designed to provide you with, be it a phone, TV, car, washing machine or vacuum cleaner?
Nobody is suggesting that the right to repair has to be done by the owner of the gear, as already mentioned and taken for granted that very few would have the required skills anyway. But those with the skills required could be employed by businesses who would be able to afford the right equipment and that they should be able to source the required parts from the manufacturers at realistic prices.
The dude at the local market doing things on the cheap, even such things as replacing watch batteries carry their own risks as I know first hand at my cost when I took an old but much loved Accurist watch to the guy in the market who replaced watch batteries, the watch shown below. He completely and utterly fucked it up, lost hands etc because he could not believe that it only had a single battery as the cheaper ones have 2 as they are essentially, 2 watches in the same case. He took it to many jewellers for repair, and they said beyond repair. I sent in desperation back to Accurist who did manage to repair it at a very affordable price, despite it being a very old model and had not been in production for some time.
As a result, I now collect Accurist watches and also Citizen watches, who likewise have repaired watches inexpensively for me. I have since acquired the correct tool to unscrew watch backs and can replace my own batteries now, but a Citizen Eco-Drive model goes back to Citizen for replacements.
These are companies with some ethics and deserve supporting.