[clusterfish]

Accidental failures are one thing, deliberately user hostile design is another.

[unstatedAnswers]

Parent is insinuating this may be deliberate sabotage on Brother’s end, to convince users to buy a new model after a while

[clusterfish]

It may also be just random failure of some components that were simply costed to be less than bulletproof on their "low to midrange" model. Or a software issue as suggested by another poster. No evidence of any sabotage was presented.