I understand how you feel.
I’d just like to hammer home a few points, even though I’m preaching to the converted.
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Planning, production runs, stock management are all subject to economies of scale. The bigger you are, the easier it is to absorb deviations from your original plan either way, and of course if you’re manufacturing your own modules (and maybe even components, as the very big actors may), you can trigger a production run like snapping your fingers (but do they?) Fairphone doesn’t have that scale of operations. Given their size, it’s incredible the influence this company has had on the industry in the Right to Repair, Recycling and Responsible raw materials and manufacturing.
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The FP4 and FP5 come with five-year guarantees that are truly impressive given that context.
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The community as represented by this forum is able to help in a significant way. The backs of drawers of community members are a significant store of spare parts that can be made available to those who need them - and they regularly are, though perhaps not enough. fairphoneangels and localcommunities may also play a rôle here, receiving, managing and distributing parts as they can.
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For those buying new phones, FP offer a reward for phones sent back for recycling. I don’t know to what extent these phones are being exploited for spare parts. Again not easy to manage, every module would have to be thoroughly tested and I don’t know what sort of guarantee could be offered, but FP have themselves published information on that sort of activity.
See here (already cited above) for example and comments: