You are off by a couple of years. My seven year old laptop (8th gen Intel) has usb c/thunderbolt ports, more than fast enough nvme ssds, which are easily upgrad

You are off by a couple of years. My seven year old laptop (8th gen Intel) has usb c/thunderbolt ports, more than fast enough nvme ssds, which are easily upgradable, wifi card upgradable (except for whitelist nonsense), a 500nits, 2560xsomething IPS screen. Performance of my new laptop (amd 7840hs) is better, yes, but it is much, much less significant than you would think. If not for hardware issues, I would not feel any pressure to "upgrade".