IME, expandable storage in Macs was mainly used as a run-around around the Apple Tax on their storage options - buy the base model and upgrade the storage yours

IME, expandable storage in Macs was mainly used as a run-around around the Apple Tax on their storage options - buy the base model and upgrade the storage yourself for 1/3rd the price. I always thought it was a fair trade-off. Pro users who care more about stability/support can pay the Apple Tax, and enthusiasts on a budget can DIY it and get a better machine for less. It feels like greed to cut off that path. It was also way more important in the day of spinning disks - so many machines from that era got a new lease on life by having the HDD replaced with an SSD. Imagine if HDDs had somehow been soldered in...