Pure rent seeking. It’s not the only example. So many products have artificial defects deliberately added by the manufacturer so that they can then charge you to disable the defect.

It looks like the repo was hosted on the author’s website which appears to now be offline.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230330213306/http://perma-curious.eu/repo-ewx/

I found a fork on github.

https://github.com/rayslava/ewx

deleted by creator