Comment by dangus

I think this is something of a rose tinted glasses nostalgic look.

I remember my iBook G4 took 30 screws to get into it and swap a hard drive.

Yes, it was “modular,” but it wasn’t specifically designed to be easily repaired.

There have been times when the systems were designed to be easy to change components like the disk and RAM in the original Core 2 Duo MacBooks, but these seem to be the exception, not the rule.

Let’s not forget the “no user serviceable parts” original Macintosh. Apple has never really been repair-oriented company, they just occasionally make products that are coincidentally easy to repair.