Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not that they actively do bad things, it's that they only dedicate real resources in the direction of self-interest. Tim Cook likes to point to their solar investments and accessibility as examples of "doing good" when in reality the former is a good long term financial bet and the latter is generally under-resourced (or "cheap" to them). They'd use M.2 SSDs in their Macs instead of soldering flash chips to the…
10/10/24 update: they’re actually removable! https://x.com/SnazzyLabs/status/1854959732228079714
And dosdude1 has already shown that you can (if you can resolder bgas) upgrade the storage.