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You should have fixed it yourself.....That’s what I have done my whole life.

I’m assuming you’re talking about the ford tail light. First, it wasn’t me and, second, it’s the cost of the tail light assembly itself. It contains key components of the car’s computer system. The rest of the car cares about how the tail lights work. And that’s the problem. Modern cars are way too complicated in order to offer features that are peripheral and not really all that important, if at all, to owners.

But about fixing it myself, I built a 30x60 shop building in early 2020 for exactly that. The first “serious” repair I did was in 1970 as a junior in High school when I rebuilt the manual transmission on my 1963 Rambler Classic. I’ve had 38 cars and pickups in my time here. With the exception of the FR-S, I did all my own repairs and, now that it’s not my commuter car (retired), I’m doing the repairs on that one too.

I confess that I don’t always enjoy it, but at least I trust the work, which is more than I can say for when I pay someone to do it.

BTW, OBD is a godsend to people that do their own work. Back in the late 90’s I had a Plymouth reliant that was completely dead. I checked the codes and they said it had a bad map sensor. I went to a junkyard and they GAVE ME ONE. Installed it and the car started right up. Imagine trying to identify such a problem before OBD.😋