This might be great "because we can" or to recycle old MacBooks, but to me the whole point of having a Macbook is the tight, native integration with its hardwar

This might be great "because we can" or to recycle old MacBooks, but to me the whole point of having a Macbook is the tight, native integration with its hardware. I pay the premium for Apple precisely because everything just works, and works well. (Barring the occasional bugs...)