All those costs in modularity apply to PCs, which are still around despite the hard drive to turn everything into a SOC. If I were able to get the same amount

All those costs in modularity apply to PCs, which are still around despite the hard drive to turn everything into a SOC. If I were able to get the same amount of use out of a modular phone as I have my daily driver PC (going on nearly 10 years) then I'd happily pay more for the robust design. I get that the popular justification for SOC is power savings, but the cost is so much higher than just incredibly rapid obsolescence. Consider all the software problems, the binary blobs, the lack of security updates, the vendor lock in... we really need to step off this crazy train.