It's outrageous to set fines and bans on default passwords, especially those old enough and struggling to learn more about technologies not to bother about this information.
This isn't a ban on default passwords, merely on non-unique default passwords. It's just as easy to laser-print a unique per-device password on the device label as it ever was.
It's hard when companies merge and have a new boss; prior CEOs' egos will not let this happen unless something is interesting that can improve the company's current state tremendously.