The disaster is that there has been a large enough component of buyers that did not care about the issue, and that had no idea of the possibility of the issue.

It created this perverse market together with many others.

If, if this disastrous piece of history ends up well, the reaction to it will be a market that demands repairability, vendor agnostic.

Among the circulating information about new vehicles is, for example, that * batteries may tend to drain in days and * a flat battery cannot be simply replaced or restarted: the car must be brought to its manufacturer's service premises. Evident absurdities like this could trigger a reaction, they should wake up people...

It could and should make people want to be able to fix their car themselves.