[MikeQBF]

This thing with "subscriptions" to get to hardware already there angers me greatly. You paid for the engineering and components up front. So is it your vehicle, or does it still belong to the corporations you allegedly bought it from?

This rancor is not out of the blue. I was exposed to this methodology 50 years ago. That's right, half a century. I was a data processing manager for a small company when small mainframes were just coming on board at a price point they could afford (IBM System 3, for those in the know). I was writing code that was maxing-out RAM on the model we were leasing, a whopping 4K bytes. The IBM rep offered to install another 4K, at an additional ~$1000/mo. I was able to convince the Big Boss that this memory was needed if he wanted all those bells and whistles in the general ledger report to work. Yes, it was IBM, and were not to be questioned because we were leasing capacity and not "hardware". Still, had the Internet been a thing then, the little trick with the black wire would have set the 'net on fire.

Service tech made the appointment, and I shut everything down for him to install the newly-doubled capacity. Looking over his shoulder (I always did), the "installation" amounted to moving one black wire from one pin on the backplane to another. $1000 a month more for core memory that was already there. I never told my boss about this, I was furious enough for both of us.

So the concept of you paying good money in purchasing a vehicle yet only leasing parts of it? Where the sun don't shine, folks, where the sun don't shine.