Don't worry, they won't give up without a fight. I bet they'll try to push some artificial reasons for people to keep throwing away perfectly good machines every two years.
Yes, more-less. Things people invent to extract more money out of their customers, or keep afloat a business model that is visibly incompatible with reality - like planned obsolescence on lightbulbs and fridges, or DRMs.
And then maybe they could make it impossible to repair the broken part for less than a third of a new device. "Tight integration streamlines the production, makes everything cheaper", they could say.
Don't worry, they won't give up without a fight. I bet they'll try to push some artificial reasons for people to keep throwing away perfectly good machines every two years.