Welcome to America, where one political party does not even pretend to give a damn about consumers, or really, anything other than themselves and their corporate masters, while the opposing political party pretends that they're on your side to earn votes, only to screw you over at the last possible minute.

Also I bet Samdung, Crapple and Microshaft paid a lot of money to get these changes made. Every dollar that you give to these three, makes any sort of RTR regulations less and less likely.

One thing it really makes me appreciate though is the PC market, where components are generally cheap and mostly easy to repair or replace, especially so with desktops. Don't get me wrong though, they certainly want to turn the PC into ultra-locked down consumer trash like a video game console or smartphone where you can't even get to your data if something goes wrong; this is what TPM, Pluton and friends are all about. But for now, motherboards, etc are cheap. Especially now that there is competition in the CPU market again.

Motherboard manufacturers have been trying to drive the cost of motherboards up into the stratosphere with AM5, but we just flip them the middle finger and stay on Zen 3, because Zen 3 is more than good enough already. And AM5 is such a roaring success that they had to slash the prices not even two months after introduction. lol