It sounds like the regulation is weak enough that the manufacturers won't have to do much. I have to say batteries or chargers have gotten better. Batteries used to fail all the time, but they last much longer now. So people are less bothered.
Maybe like 4chan. No usernames, just a big mix, to make surveillance more difficult. There might be some ephemeral tracking (data retained no more than 5 minutes) to separate the participants in threaded conversations and to throttle stuff like spam floods. With luck the locality requirement would be enough to stop it turning from a 4chan-like cesspit. I didn't know about imageboard systems when they were happening and before they became awful, but they sound in retrospect like they were cool as hell, better than what we have now.
I've always liked 7-11 and now I understand its relative lack of enshittification compared to some alternatives. I guess someone is trying to change that.
How often do you see a company managed by adults? That sounded like the issue in the original post. It's not about personal embarrassment. It's criticism of the company.
Article says columnist resigned, not editor.