Motability is at fault.
It cowered and pandered to Daily Mail reader types and cut our choice of cars. That worked to a point but it left itself open to the pandemic/ chip shortage/ Brexit nightmare scenario more than would have been the case. Too few apples in too few baskets meant huge risk. And they gambled badly.
It can only make money if it delivers what customers want, so it has to change, adapt and modernise- or die. If it dies, there will likely be a shell of a charity left, issuing the equivalent of blue 3 wheelers to only the most in need. The rest of us will have to find alternatives. The squeezed middle again.
And while its in our interests Motability doesn’t die, we have little control in influencing that. It doesn’t listen and is blind to the oncoming iceberg.