[themoonisachees]

This has no actual effect on the underlying issue that nothing is stopping companies from doing this. In fact, if what you describe active ually happens a lot, it would be trivial to set up puppet competitors to your own products in order to recapture leaving costumers, repeat ad infinitum.

[Daz1]

"it would be trivial to set up puppet competitors to your own products in order to recapture leaving costumers"

Citation needed