Completely false. It's just a fact that laptops assembled this way are less expensive than those using other methods to achieve similar levels of thinness, rigidity, and durability. At the same cost, a fully repairable laptop is thicker, more likely to be damaged by flexure, and has a cheaper feel.

It's also a fact that laptops lose the vast majority of their consumer value after a few years anyway, so it's a false economy to think of paying a higher price up front in pursuit of greater value years later. For most customers, that's a bad deal.

Out in the real world, consumers have owned multiple generations of products that are less upgradeable and less maintainable, but also smaller, lighter, and less expensive. They have shown they prefer this new way of building machines.

If you don't like it, that's fine, but don't imagine that you're better informed than or morally superior to other consumers or the corporate decision-makers who aren't putting your desires above those of other people.