Oh my god, this should be illegal. What an environmental waste to block what hardware can do for business reasons, is there any global lobby fighting bullshit like this?
HEVs also use only about 50% of the battery to reduce wear on it (go from 30 to 80 charge, no more).
No mom! I'm afraid of heights!
But anyway, I won't buy a vehicle with a subscription based feature list that isn't something like a concierge service. If it's in the vehicle, I've already paid for the gear. (This changes once there's a community of moto hackers that can disable the lockouts... ish)
The evil here is purely "pay monthly to unlock a configuration option", not the existence of such wear limiters. And that part is new.