I don’t think they understand politics enough to discern ideology, so they take political labels at face value. That’s how you get 1 liberal (sam seder) vs 20 conservatives, and it turns out to be 1 jew vs 20 weird nazis.

features that they can’t afford to maintain

That logic might work for GPS service, but the example in the article is a bike where the battery’s discharge rate and capacity are limited by software, and those limits can be increased via software if you pay a subscription.

The way the article frames it as “why pay for what you don’t need” is so bad.

Nah, you already paid for it, the part is physically in the motorcycle.

Might save someone else a similar experience.

Per mile, there are more fatalities, but in the US, something like 39/40 deaths from bicycles and 4/5 deaths from motorbikes is due to cars; presumably decreasing the number of miles driven by car would lower the number of pedestrian, bike, and motorbike fatalities they cause.