I’m sure there is some middle ground that makes more sense between having every single capacitor available and having to get half a laptop replaced when your battery dies, or your cooler dies and stuff like that. Not sure if that’s the case anymore, but it was before the last redesign.

As for the cost to the consumer, it depends. Apple wanted me to pay like 500 for a noise cooler replacement (since they replaced half the laptop) when I could literally buy and get one repaired in a shop for like 50…

If I wanted a battery replacement, I would need to leave my Macbook with them for like a week, and then pick it up again. Again at like $500. Meanwhile, no laptop. Or I could go to a third party shop and get some third party battery from who knows where and they do it in an hour and for like $100.

There’s levels to it.

And for repair shops, they should at least allow them to pre stock these assemblies at least so they can repair quickly, and also use one ‘donor board’ and repair multiple devices from those capacitors, resistors and chips. My latest knowledge is they didn’t allow any of that.

Again, not an expert, but I doubt Apple is suddenly going for the most user friendly choice.