I don't know if a legal angle is the most helpful, but we probably need a Kyle Kingsbury type to step into this space and shame vendors who make inaccurate claims.
Which is currently all of them, but that was also the case in the distributed systems space when he first started working on Jepsen.
Sure, of course. But even if you did want to seek a legal remedy, someone would have to do the work to clearly document the issue for the purposes of making it clear to a non-technical courtroom.
And at the point where that documentation had been done, that on its own might be enough to right the ship without anyone actually having to get sued.
Which is currently all of them, but that was also the case in the distributed systems space when he first started working on Jepsen.