@Sultry @graf The same thing's happening with cars. They don't need to secure your obedience when they can just continuously legislate manufacturers into doing their bidding anyways.
This is something that gets me really upset that I rarely hear people talking about. New units won't be constructed, and the supply of replacement parts will winnow out eventually. And then the only people that can have these things are those that can fabricate them from scratch themselves.
They're doing it to gasoline and diesel cars as we speak. They want everyone to have those useless electrics so that they can't have an army of angry ruralists packed into pickups overwhelm all the guard bases in an evening. And if that doesn't happen in the next 12 years, it's never going to.