Yes, good points, but what can make financial sense doesn't need to make economical sense.

Perhaps in such events we can transition to smaller, maybe RISK-V boards with components from various manufacturers.

But yes, I too keep hoping consumers would speak up & stop bs practices. Then again, if we kill a consumer industry you can't just bring it back in a year, and megacorps can weather in the meantime by offering consumers short-term incentives if they make the switch. It's how all the personal data collection by private corps started, why eg Google had free services (and no ads) & yet was already being valued in the billions.