Old e-readers were already usable. Generating extruded story-like product on them when they're already perfectly capable of displaying the vast majority of human literature doesn't make them any more usable.

Produce rots in the fields because there was no way to get a profit from it

Also making old hardware unaffordable too.

> That too sounds like an actually good development all things considered

It would be good if we would use less resources.

But we are not.

It's just that some people don't get the newer resources.