That doesn't make the laptop less repairable than it was before they launched this program, though, which is what the headline claims. It's less repairable tha

That doesn't make the laptop less repairable than it was before they launched this program, though, which is what the headline claims. It's less repairable than a hypothetical version of the repair program which sells you just the component you need to replace, sure, but you can still perform any-and-all actions that you'd have taken to replace a battery before Apple's official program existed.