I think you might be being a bit dramatic.

I feel like the article you’re commenting on undermines your case.

You’re paying for the mainboard as well, it’s all one soldered package.

No they don’t, but the ones with the 8050S do. That’s the tradeoff. If you don’t want a soldered chip (the cpu is also soldered to the mainboard) buy the lower tier but same gen APUs with normal iGPUs, like the ones in the Framework 13.

Having worked from Europe for a US tech company, that’s the norm. I had about 15 Americans reporting into me and I required them all to take a minimum of 20 days off. Most of them found this confusing at first, like it was a trap or something, and I had to insist. My peers in leadership in the US could not understand how my employee retention was so good.

Man, 14 years is a hell of a long time in one place.

That is not the standard launch metric in the industry, that comes in quarterly earnings calls. Are you one of the go woke go broke brigade?