Re: @Dwarf
It might be worth pointing out that, even to a technically-minded person, it's not always obvious what failures are likely to happen until they actually do happen, nor is it obvious whether it's been made deliberately repairable or deliberately not. Even after the fault occurs and you've found yourself with a repair bill that exceeds the cost of a new machine, your average joe isn't going to have any real point of reference regarding whether that was normal or not, or whether it should have been repairable with a halfway competent design. Often you can only make judgement calls on that based on a company's reputation, and that only tends to change over a scale of years or decades rather than the lifetime of a product.
TL;DR: It's often not obvious at purchase how repairable a product is.
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