The U.S federal government is a crony capitalist system where lobbyist, NGO's and well connected private industries (Sackler family, Pfizer) coerce bureaucrat's and lowly paid senators (they only make 200K). Much of the time regulation is a thinly veiled attempt to price out smaller competitors and to build moats around industries. The bureaucrat's that illegally manifest these fly-by-night rules (in the U.S they're not allowed to legislate yet they try to all the time) typically leave public service and work on the boards of companies that benefit from these regulations. One of the latest examples was the push by the tobacco industry -- and states that depend on tobacco taxes -- to regulate Vaping out of existence.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/romney-merkley-introduce-bil...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-bain-tobacco_n_19...

I would expect that any attempt by the FCC to regulate hardware would be done in conjunction with the stakeholders (K Street)

https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/chip-lobby-spending-wash...