It's all about screwing the customer
Unrepairable products or ones that are overly expensive to repair exist ONLY to screw the customer. Punter, business or government customer.
Planned obsolescence wasn't enough. Nor was new style or design. Nor was short warranties and only being able to send the product back to the manufacturer and not the retail store to get it serviced and repaired.
When it comes to business, just about everything is a scam.
And yet morons keep buying this stuff.
(and could somebody PLEASE fix the tiny, tiny font size in the reply box? Thanks)