There’s a fairly meaningful distinction between replace, repair, and recover. In this case we can recover the phone without replacing any hardware at all, so b

There’s a fairly meaningful distinction between replace, repair, and recover. In this case we can recover the phone without replacing any hardware at all, so bringing up repair or replacement is a bit of a red herring. But as I recall, Theseus’ ship was repaired over so many battles, nothing of the original remained. That is distinctly different than botching a single repair so badly you would have been better off replacing from the onset. There are plenty of ways to get plenty of hardware into an obviously FUBAR state. It’s simply false to say that there is no such thing as a definitively bricked state for any device whatsoever. Simple rule of thumb; if the commonly accepted solution is “get a new device” then you’ve probably bricked it. Absolutely no one will have to buy a new iPhone because of this bug.