I've never heard of anybody doing that with a Mac, and have never replaced a Mac laptop with less than 5-6 years of heavy use of it... I type this on a Mid-201

I've never heard of anybody doing that with a Mac, and have never replaced a Mac laptop with less than 5-6 years of heavy use of it... I type this on a Mid-2015 Macbook Pro, still working well but Mac OS tells me I need the battery serviced. I'll probably buy a new Macbook Pro 16" when they bring one out with Apple Silicon and then do the battery replacement and keep this one going as a spare machine (and for the old Photoshop and other Adobe CS6 apps that won't work on a 64-bit only OS which is why this is still running Mojave).