Because as a consumer, I’m now quite hesitant to buy a thing without knowing if it’s going to be properly supported.

The end-game is to have every consumer appliance operate with a shelf-life. Yeah, you'll have older models that don't do this, but they will become increasingly rare (and, consequentially, expensive) while the mass produced disposables will saturate the market.

Basically, that experience is why I’m no longer willing to buy things that wholly depend on outside servers

What do you do when this becomes "Everything"?