Keep dancing. Apple provides repair parts for their Authorized Repair Locations. If the product to be repair were intended to just be replaced under warranty, there'd be no such need for repair parts. You don't have a clue about Apple's practices that make it and its products the best in the world. You are talking about companies who are chasing profits by selling the lowest priced commodity products and must eke out every fractional cent from manufacturing possible. Apple does not have to do that.
So what you are saying is that Apple doesn’t have to be price competitive. Interesting.
Anyway, I think that we are at a point to agree to disagree. You are not going to change my opinion and I am not going to change yours.
BTW, I have no brand loyalty. I look for the best bang for the buck — functionality, quality, and cost. And in that order. I may continue with a certain brand if they have performed well. But if they don’t continue to perform, I will switch. I am a participant in and a driving force in our Free Market System.