In a lot of movies, it's the baddies that wear all white.
Anyway, the thing I do not understand, is why does not Keysight simply charge more for private customers? I don't see anybody demanding they take any kind of financial hit or risk here!
The thing is, not all professionals are incorporated, or want to be incorporated. I'm not an EE, only a bumblefuck hobbyist on the electronics side, but I am a professional software developer and physicist, and telling the likes of me to not use Keysight gear because we won't have any access to support, spare parts, or vendor calibration services, is just shooting themselves in the foot.
I'd love to hear what is the true internal reasoning here. (I've already posted that I do believe it is salespeople hoodwinking the leadership that this is a good thing, simply because the salespeople want to keep business simple and in a sector where their personal comissions from sales are higher, even though it will damage the company in the long term. Again, I've seen how variants of this have played out before, and it is sad to see such obvious mistakes are being repeated again and again.)