Except even if the majority DOES adopt this model:

• that will make repairing old hardware more profitable, so supply will rise to meet demand at least a bit (and is also objectively a good thing)
• a lot of old hardware isn’t compatible with Win11+ and unless Microsoft is visited by the Three Ghosts of Software or the long-anticipated Year Of The Linux Desktop arrives, so that’s one moat you can take advantage of (I assume you, a Lemmy user, are more likely to try Linux than an average person would, or are using it already)
• if the price still goes up, manufacturers will step in to take advantage
• at some point, the new slop business model won’t have enough customers to sustain itself