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It's kind of a symptom of the modern day corporate excess. Sig Sauer winning a not very well thought out program as the bar-none worst entrant, and then managing to still underdeliver after that, it just fits nicely next to all the enshittification and customer abuse you see from other big tech companies these days.
Paul Verhoeven ended up being uncomfortably prescient on this exact point.

If it's not the people making your new phone or car trying to bend you over and fuck you in the ass, it'll be the people making your new "Next Generation Service Weapon" as an infantryman. Optionally, a given defense contractor fucking John Deering the army for trivial maintenance shit which a half-decent army mechanic would have been able to just do himself 25 years ago.

I think the fact that even the army is getting fucked in the ass in this era of extreme corporate avarice, is actually one of those things which could help all us get some leverage on the rest of the market for all kinds of other things and fight back.