From the article:

"Why are there no laws requiring device manufacturers to open source all software and hardware for consumer devices no longer sold?"

I think it's because people (us here included) love to yap and argue about problems instead of just implementing them and iterating on solutions in an organized manned. A good way these days to go about it would be to forego the facade of civility and use your public name to publicly tell your politician to just fuck it, do it it bad, and have plan to UNfuck after you fuck it up, until the fucking problem is fucking solved.

Same goes for UBI and other semi-infuriating issues that seem to (and probably do) have obvious solutions that we just don't try.