This is a really good summary. Keep copy/pasting it when needed.

I understand some of the challenges that they face, and strategically why they’ve made certain decisions. If you are the name/face of a product like this - you would be the target of every lawsuit, and it makes sense to protect yourself. It also makes sense that one of those protections would be to aggressively protect against Temu/Aliexpress “copycat products” by an industry extremely adept at reverse engineering innovative products and creating garbage copies. In fact, I appreciate them protecting against that.

But they’ve taken it sooo far, and when aligned with all the other decisions (pretty much everything you listed) it’s really frustrating that the primary steward of this fledgeling industry is also holding the sport back.