I am glad to see that others are not fans of equipment that has little to no ability to be repaired. The only major impediment to repair not noted in that article is legal hurdles making repair difficult or impossible, generally involving a manufacturer encrypting control ICs and not allowing anybody but a company representative to access them. Perhaps that is already illegal in France.
Repairability has certainly been discussed on this forum, often regarding light fixtures. Older light fixtures were as a rule very repairable and you'd rarely see any nonstandard parts except for parts of the fixture itself such as lenses and reflectors. Sockets, lamps, and ballasts, if used, were nearly always standard and easy to replace when/if they wore out. Integrated LED luminaries are the opposite. Many are not able to be repaired at all, and the ones that theoretically could have defective parts replaced use very specific proprietary parts as there are no widespread standards as there are for fluorescent, incandescent, or HID lighting lamps, sockets, ballasts, etc.
