Because as you say, people don't care. It benefits big corporations immensely to keep this out. And when people don't care, well. You can forget about right to repair ever happening in this country unless a major, major awakening happens.

Ah, I get it. So it's not so much like a burning building. It's more like this:

So I’ve actually never come across this concept of ‘Right to repair’ before reading this topic,, due to this maybe I’m missing something about it, but surely technically everyone does have the right to repair anything you buy? nothing stops you opening your device if you want to, sure some require special tools, but often you can pick up these tools to open for example phones(normally dirt cheap too),  through eBay or just a quick google search if you want the tools. sure you’ll void the warranty if you want to open it up and tinker with the inner workings yourself, but that doesn’t seem unreasonable to me, since I guess someone unqualified could do more damage than good, since that side of a product isn’t designed with the customer in mind. To answer your question though, I think a big proportion of people are just not techy or just don’t have the knowledge of fixing electronics or a broken  item, and wouldn’t have the first idea how to fix something if it broke, so if they can't fix it themselves anyway then the concept of right to repair is irrelevant to them, since they are just more than happy sending it back to the company they brought it from an having them repair it. I think many people also live in a very fast paced busy lifestyle, for a lot of these people they’d simply much rather just pay the company they brought it from to fix it, rather than spend their own time fixing it. on a separate angle, looking at it from the corporation standpoint, one of the issues with right to repair would be as mentioned previously people actually doing more damage to the product by being able to open it up themselves. Although I’m sure these companies are happy generating extra revenue streams through having their own repair centres (so I’m sure part of it is about profit), but if you take for example an iPhone, if you make it really simple to get into with conventional screws, suddenly everyone who breaks their phones, even if they have no knowledge of the inner workings of a phone opens it up to take a look and see  if they can fix it themselves, again often if unqualified possibly doing more damage to the device in the process. as another example, with a lot of mobile phones and similar products which are sealed to make them water resistant. , the moment someone opens one of these devices, unless you really know what you’re doing I would imagine when you do it back up it won’t be water tight any longer, therefore creating more risk of customers water damaging their devices and causing a surge of customers  complaining about the water damage to the company who sold  the device. Again, I could be totally wrong on all of this and totally missing the point, but that’s my personal view on why some people just won’t ever care about something like this, as it simply doesn’t affect them if they can’t fix it themselves anyway.

@6, sadly, not all devices let you do this. Some devices (like the surface pro if I'm not mistaken) have special hardware fuses for lack of a better term that get tripped when you open the device up to get at the insides. When this fuse is tripped it bricks the device completely.

@9, I'd guess they'd have special software or hardware they can flash to make it recognise its a legitimate OEM Technician?
Also @6, even if people can't fix it themselves they should be able to drop it at your nearest tech repair shop, and have them fix it no problem. If you're more skilled and you have a knack for tinkering you can go ahead, but if you're busy and whatever you should be able to drop it off at a centre near you.

Yeah. I'm personally split on this particular issue, but at the same time I really, really don't trust most third party repair shops. I've had far too many bad experiences with counter fit parts, ETC.

I mean, yeah, it really comes down to effects, and how it might effect your life. In the end, we only have so much time and energy to worry about things. Anymore, and we overload. The deal here is we each have to make decisions about what kind of society we want to live in. Contrary to popular belief, there are many valid ways to run a society each with there own strengths and weaknesses, and trying to put the entire world on the same page government wise, is probably not a good idea.  Either way, I digress. some things are just more important  to some people than to others. This isn't necessarily bad.

@15, and that's exactly why I don't go for Apple products anymore. I, too, have a System76 laptop, though its really a Clevo because I got this one before they started making their own hardware. Its got Arch and Windows on it and it runs beautifully. I've only had to replace the keyboard once, and only had to clean it out once too. And the repairs/cleaning in total cost me less than $300.00. I don't quite remember the exact amount anymore -- it was a while ago -- but replacing the keyboard is ridiculously easy. The guys over there are also incredibly helpful as well; I've had a couple of phone conversations with them and its great to go into extensive detail about components and such. I've gotta say that this computer is undoubtedly the best computer I've ever had.

Hmm. I doubt they  hit all of the BITE model perfectly... I, for example, have not heard of Apple commanding its consumers on what they must wear. LOL!!! I get the point, though. I will need to check into system 76. I may be in the market for a new laptop and want to branch out to linux machines.

Let's try to give an example for each...
Behaviour control:
I'll cite scare tactics here, specifically the 'unidentified developers' propaganda. If you try to run a Mac app developed by someone who doesn't pay the tithe (have an Apple Developer subscription), your computer will issue alarmist warnings about how the OS can't guarantee that the app is free of malware and make it quite difficult to run the app. Unless Apple's 'app reviewers' are security researchers who disassemble apps and analyze every line of assembly with a fine-tooth comb, they cannot truly guarantee that any 3rd party app is malware free. They just feel it is their right to force devs to pay them for the privilege of developing apps on their platform, apps which Apple themselves had no hand in actually developing. So they make the 'bad behaviour' difficult to commit and rife with scary warnings, in order to convince most users to delete the app until its developers pay the ransom.
Information control:
This one's the easiest. Everything about apple is top secret. No service manuals, no schematics, nothing that would allow individuals or independent repair shops to fix their products.
Thought control:
Louis Rossman on Youtube has a great example of this one. I think it was the iPhone 6 which exhibited reception issues if you held the phone a certain way. Rather than admitting that a design flaw existed and recalling affected units, Apple tried to convince users that they were simply holding the phone wrong. Oh, and don't even get me started on their practice of taking away critical hardware components, forcing people to buy tiny, easily lost adapters and then somehow manipulating people into embracing this rather than seeing it as the unnecessary inconvenience that it is.
Emotion control:
Apple admittedly makes good software. They get you hooked in with software that simply works better than the competition (Windows), then charge more and more for hardware that is increasingly inferior with every generation. Yet somehow, they get enough people to believe that the lack of USB ports on the new MacBook Pros, for example, is an issue with the customer's expectations, rather than an arbitrary restriction designed to inconvenience and rip people off.
To sum it all up:
I don't think there's another manufacturer out there who could get away with charging premium prices for hardware which becomes increasingly more inconvenient with every generation (for no good reason), while retaining a loyal customer base who are willing to blame themselves for the product's shortcomings rather than blaming the company that's jerking them around.

My System76 came out $1000 cheaper than the MacBook would have, and the MacBook would have had significantly lower specs.
When I bought my current MacBook Pro in 2017, I paid right around $3000 for it. For that price I could only get 256GB of storage, which was nowhere near enough. So I set up iCloud and took advantage of its 'optimized storage' feature, like Apple expects you to do. Only trouble was, Apple decides which files can be removed from your computer to save space, not you. So I frequently encountered situations where I was on a bus or a flight and needed to access a file, but the black box had removed it without my knowledge.
Then it occurred to me that this was absolute madness. I was paying $10 per month for iCloud, on top of the $3000 I already paid for the machine, Apple had all my data (in some cases the only copy of it) and I felt completely powerless and violated. So I installed Nextcloud on my server and moved all my data there. I still couldn't have it all sync with my Mac, of course, so I just offloaded the excess to an 'archive' folder on my server, which finally allowed me to decide which files I would need rarely enough to put them in inconvenient storage.
Then my right-arrow key started failing, as is completely understandable for a Voiceover user. To have the keyboard replaced and the storage upgraded would cost more than the machine.
Over the past three years I switched from Hotmail to self-hosted email, switched from iCloud to self-hosted Nextcloud and started self-hosting Bitwarden, so it made sense to switch my personal computer to Linux as well (now that Electron apps are more accessible with Orca than they were a couple of years ago).
I compared a MacBook Pro with 2TB of SSD, a 2.X GHZ quad core processor and 32GB of ram to a Lemur Pro with a 4.7GHZ quad core processor, 40GB of ram and 4TB of SSD storage. The lemur was an entire $1000 less.
Screw apple. I'll run OSX in a VM for the purposes of compiling cross platform code, because I feel I've given them more than enough only to have been utterly shafted. Credit where credit is due on the accessibility front, however.

Oh, I am not necessarily denying that they do hit BITE model points. Just that they don't hit it perfectly. For me, when I hear that phrase, I think they get high scores on every point of each part. That being said, yeah, I have no good reason to move to apple products.  There are some fields that really  just run better in the apple environment, and while I do perform in one of those fields, I'm willing to do the extra leg work to get things rolling on other operating systems. I have that luxury.