I've never had planned obsolescence before but it is definitely true.
Most companies care about sales rather than customer satisfaction and long lifespans as many will decide to leech of loyal customers when they repeatedly by their product.
It is the worse when you have brand specific expensive pieces of hardware which you can't replace with a 3rd party one.
It disgusts me how much people are motivated by greed but it is human nature I guess @kus-knee
Yes it is too bad that they act in that way!