This has come up before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607793). The usual response I see from Framework o

This has come up before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607793). The usual response I see from Framework owners is it turns out having recessed dongles is actually a surprisingly nice convenience that beats out normal dongles way more than you'd think. But RE the dongles locking people in, you can literally just replace it with an actual normal dongle if you'd like, but also the schematics are completely open (https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards). This is very very different from the way Apple does things.