Doubtless, other makers of children’s gadgets have wished that they could get paid again when the gadget changed hands in the secondary market. The makers of SNOO aren’t smarter or even more evil than all those other executives. They’re just more capable—they have a device with a continuous internet connection that they can downgrade at will. They have DRM and IP law, which felonize anyone who disenshittifies SNOOs, say, by making an alternative app for it that restores all the features they’ve confiscated.
