I am pro right to repair but also applaud some of BD's points.
Example: had an Asus graphics board.
Died after a couple of weeks, swapped out and replaced by Asus.
Couple of months later the replacement board died. Turned out that the GDDR6 RAM was dead (they did have a lot of defective chips out there ...)
Those were board level repaired by Asus.
Both time fixed under warranty, which is fine.
Have a Zotac card which gave me a couple of strange sensor readings. Need to check this, currently the driver crashes when doing opencl calls. May be the card, may be it just overheated, don't know. Still under warranty, but most likely a sensor or the RAM which is defective. Those can be swapped out, even with a hot air station. So for the person who has the equipment, why should a sumhunnerd bucks card suddenly become a door stop ?
I do not toss 500 bucks for an hour of repair.
I would not toss my car for a blown bulb just because the manufacturer said so.
Making stuff repairable and providing spares and decent repair services prevents e-waste (and waste in general). There will always be some crooks around who claim to be able to repair stuff when they are not, and the market will punish them in the long run.
As for the rest - should I take a Mercedes Benz GL type SUV and push it to the wreckers just because the passenger seat illumination and gesture sensor (a xilinx fpga) barfed and committed Seppuku, the engine control goes bling signaling this error and the inspector fails the car ?
BTW I did wreck a Land Rover Discovery for a similar shit show. Trying to fix the ECU would have bricked the car. Fixing everything the Land Rover way would have cost ~ 40k to replace all 23 or so ECUs. Which is a nice way of telling the customer FU.
(I would not touch Mercedes ever again, because it's overpriced crap as is any other German car, sorry Zucca) but that is besides the point.
Having to wreck an appliance just because some minor module broke is absolutely inacceptable.
I do agree though that the standard person (at least over here) no longer learns how to write, do math, get into science, but perfectly knows how to dance its name (they are trying to abolish sex over here ...)
Also, if the excrement hits the air encabulator, those who are able to fix things and improvise will probably be in high demand.