Let's agree to disagree regarding the value proposition of today's Macs. I personally and strongly feel that soldering RAM and storage to the motherboard is cr

Let's agree to disagree regarding the value proposition of today's Macs. I personally and strongly feel that soldering RAM and storage to the motherboard is crippling the machine, but you feel differently about it, and I'm not going to argue further. Honestly, the USB-C situation is the least of my problems with the MacBook Pro and Apple these days. It's the entire philosophy of Apple and their stewardship of the Mac since Steve Jobs passed away that I take strong issue with. The problem is there is absolutely no manufacturer on the planet who has a philosophy toward personal computing that is aligned with the pre-2012 Apple, before Apple started soldering RAM to their motherboards and before Apple started dramatically lengthening the frequency of updating their Macs. We had a great run of no-compromise personal computers from 2001-2013ish or so, and it's over, not because it got supplanted by superior technology, but because Apple can't make as much money off the 5-10% of power users rather than the masses. Maybe it's just a "c'est la vie" type of thing, but it's a shame that nobody seems to care about the personal computing needs of power users anymore.