Capitalism is a fucking joke and anyone who doesn't understand it's a stupid game is delusional
Most people are emotionally invest in the propaganda. unplugging them is matrix level experience that only some people are able to pull off, generally due to some heavy trauma
They are designed to last decades, so they also just turn a profit decades into the future, and investors don't like that.
These same investors rely on endless state aid... who fucking cares what they like. The state can deploy CapEx for strategic projects but some how westoid normie can't wrap his head around this concept so we keep funneling money to the parasites to pad their profits for poorly thought out projects.
For the more rookie people, check out routers that are based on openwrt and have rookie GUI.
OpenWRT is great and powerful but unless you are trying to level your networking skills, it can turn into a biatch real quick beyond basic set up.