And cars are driven more than worked on, but putting the oil filter inaccessibly in the middle of the engine block is still an unforgiveable sin.
But if you happen to own a repair shop, you can make a fortune from drivers who don’t know how to do it. Wink.
What if there's an efficiency in engine design by placing the filter in the middle that leads to a +2mpg improvement for the driver? Or that it fails, on average, 22k miles later into it's life? Not all hard-to-repair-yourself designs are malicious...
The real issue is that oil filters and gears are really just legacy design. EVs don’t need them.
So, similar with software design, as in other fields, often a problem goes away when you ask a different question.
Try replacing the battery. Seems accessible enough at first, but ingenious engineering has made batteries the modern rubik's cube of auto maintenance.