The question is can a complete and proper transferation of information, from a product to a user (through semantics or affordance), lead to less product breakage and consequently sustainable products or not?
sure, Its really effective on products emotional attachments by decreasing products boringness. therefore it helps products durability. I recommend you to read this article:
An Experiential Approach to Products Aesthetic Sustainability: Analysis of Aesthetic Unsustainability in Japanese Mobile Phones
Undoubtedly the impacts of an emotional bond might come in handy for product longevity as Chapman introduced Emotionally Durable Design in his selfsame book; However, the ambiguity of using co-design for building better product-subjectuser interaction (not relation) to prevent unintentional breakage to products is the matter of my study; Thank you for the paper btw :)