Yeah, unfortunately you are spot on - this move is created to kill the growing criticism against its increasingly hard to repair devices, while also ensuring that they have a ready excuse to reject parts bought from third-party's and be forced to buy only costly parts from Apple. Except for the availability of exorbitantly priced "genuine" parts, nothing will really - they continue to design more and more hard to repair devices with more soldered parts, with no real ability to customise or upgrade the hardware or software from non-Apple sources.
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