You're arguing for a future where you own nothing and rent everything. Look at how many industries are using the idea of software licenses to retain control over your devices after you buy them so they can render them useless, or at least less useful, unless you pay for a subscription of some type.
EULAs have existed since the 80s, with no clear distinction on when software must be considered a product equivalent to a physical good, vs when it must be considered a service. The internet did not help with the ambiguity around this distinction.
I've always felt the start of a proper solution would have been to have the author distinguish whether they were selling products or services - choosing between copyright, patents and first sale doctrine for products, and trade secret protection only for services.
Now that the global economy is based on computer software, it would be a long and difficult process to make changes.
The answer to this is to build a better iPhone and better iOS and make it open. Not legislature - this is assuming all the users are for this (at best it seems they don’t care much about the developers). All this is difficult to accomplish. Epic should try this instead of feeding their attorneys the billions of revenues they collected from their users.
