Waterproof and repairability are really at odds.

Ah, i think i misunderstood your comment.

In terms of archiving I agree, in terms of restoring a running copy from an archive, maybe not.

C code that reproduces a running binary on an up to date compiler is worse than a machine code binary for a legacy machine of which complete Emulation is not guaranteed?

I believe pipewire should be able to do the routing. Pulseaudio as well.

There is a difference however. The techno feudalists are no longer about the means of production. Instead they increasingly show rent-seeking behaviour. Businesses looking to own “market places” and becoming brokers of other people’s services is a techni feudalist trend. Take Amazon for example. They sell top spots in their search directly to business customers. An app store monopoly is more akin to land ownership than classic factory capitalism.