I think you’re missing my point that as time goes by, the need for storage space has a tendency to increase, and thusly, without the ability to upgrade, and wit

I think you’re missing my point that as time goes by, the need for storage space has a tendency to increase, and thusly, without the ability to upgrade, and with asinine prices from Apple for their SSD’s instead of about half that for a very nice quality SSD of the same capacity, I’d prefer to buy a baseline 8GB/128GB unit and upgrade it myself for 1/3rd of the price like I have for every other single Mac I’ve bought in my 15+ years of purchasing them. Furthermore, a MacBook Pro, which one could certainly call a development machine, still starts with a baseline, non-upgradeable 128GB unit. Virtually no ‘pro’ task, Image Editing, Software Develoment, Video Editing, Audio Editing, that Macs have typically and historically been used for, are suited to these 128GB drives and create machines that need to be thrown out and add to e-waste instead of having any meaningful longevity. I know this because I do these types of tasks all the time, and was forced into a 2017 13” MBP with a 128GB SSD and paltry 8GB of RAM earlier this year due to having it given to me as a work machine. Using it was an unpleasant experience unlike any computer I’d used, much less a Mac. And why? For aesthetic purposes? For greed/profit? What’s the use of their ‘all-aluminum’ eco-friendly goals, if they create machines that intentionally have a 3-4 year shelf life baked into them? It’s mind-boggling. We pay a premium for Apple devices, and more and more, especially as the prices seem to constantly be creeping upwards at this point, the conscessions we need to make to use them have become far greater than the benefits. RIP Apple computers. Hello, Apple, Inc.