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It's tight to balance between the demand on how impossibly small things are getting, the space requirements for user serviceable latches, and just straight up reduction in component sizes.
I remember back when it was easy to desolder a capacitor/vacuum tube to replace a part; then they got smaller and replaced by IC chips. I remember back when we can just pull out a and replace memory modules on cards; then they got soldered on, but hey the card can still be ripped out of the PCI slots and replaced. Now we're seeing the GPU, CPU, and memory all getting smaller, all getting fused into a single SOC on the ever shrinking logic board... It is just the inevitable future if the world continues to want things smaller (to fit in pockets) and faster (lesser distance for signal to travel).
Unpopular opinion: I find this whole "right to repair" really pointless endeavour pushed by repair shops wanting to retain their outdated business model. In 50 years, when the entire system that's more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer today lives entirely in the stem of your glasses, and the display is fused into the lens or projection, no one will have the necessary tools to pull apart the systems nor the physical precision to repair things... and that future will come, whether these right to repair people want it or not.
It is probably better use of our collective resources to focus on researching technologies that will help us deconstruct these tiny components into their constituent matters (stable chemical compounds), such that they can be reused to build into newer equipments, as opposed to sitting in a landfill never being used again.
Either you're a shill, or you have zero clue what you're talking about. It's one of the two.
Why not explain why you think this rather than level accusations. It's not clear to me why this person has "zero clue" or is a "shill".
Because it's not only about being able to repair everything at home, but forcing the companies to avoid anti-repair practices and making you to either pay an (purposefully) exorbitant price to have it repaired by them or just having to buy a new device altogether.
That's why that dude is a shill, because he is talking as if companies act in good faith (for whatever reson) and the devices are simply "too complex" to repair. They are not, companies are puposefully making it as obscure and hard to repair as possible so that, again, you have to either pay a shit ton of money for them to repair it for you or just buy a new device altogether because changing shit like the glass of the back of the phone is half as expensive as a new device or a design "flaw" that should be covered by warranty gets turned into a simple "motherboard is faulty and warranty doesn't cover it".