Also bigger rental corporations could hypothetically be easier to reign in by the government (not that it will likely happen soon) or be expropriated more easily in any revolution (inshallah).

VERY good point. Also the creation of the rent-seeking "middle class" via the spread of private renting is a useful tool to maintain class stratification. If the corporations take that away from the petite bourgeoisie a lot of people are going to find themselves in the working class. Might take a couple of generations, but yeah, interesting to think about.

I still can't shake the feeling that anything approaching critical support of this is in very close proximity to straight up accelerationism though. I guess that's why my brain spat out "techno-feudalism" in my post, on reflection.

Costco is not going to sexually harass you or kill you in a fire because they did the wiring themselves.

We'll see.