Hermes handbags also have high resale value. That tells us nothing. Apple's anti-repair approach absolutely harms the environment. Certainly they are not alone in this, many/most electronics these days are irreparable. But Apple is actively hostile to the repair industry, which makes them more deserving of criticism.
The repair industry in this case is hostile to the environment. They are incentivized to want computers to break so that they can sell repair services.
It turns out that soldering parts in place makes them less likely to break than a socket whose connections can oxidize or come loose.
The tiny number of devices that can’t be repaired because of soldered components, is dwarfed by the number of devices that never broke in the first place because of soldered components.
