Because this way the bill of materials, design work, and labor cost are all higher; and that way the company can earn more money!

Capitalism is so far detached from what capitalists pretend it's like. Wealth distribution is so uneven in the U.S. that there's extremely little incentive to lower costs, even if the business is worse off because of it.

Because shops don't want to run hardware on site, so they outsource the hosting of management and monitoring to the cheapest contractor. Unsurprisingly they don't spend on security.

See, this is the kind of hack (if that's what it was) I can get behind. This is a military target of a nation that is currently at war. Fuck up their food supply all day every day.

But what is described in OP is just shitty.

I think Samsung had some sort of failed update that killed their refrigerators as well, makes you wonder.