This problem with appliances today occurs because manufacturers are trying to comply with eco nazi regulations. Get rid of the regs and they can start using the more reliable, albeit less green, components.
Not a place for government intervention, the market should be allowed to sort it out, but the companies who design planned obsolescence into their products should drop dead.
I have been looking at the bleeding edge of electronics throughout the personal computing era, starting with Z-80 eight bit computers.
I have also worked in computer repair shops.
In many cases, making the computers repairable/upgradable actually REDUCES reliability. Soldered in memory is more reliable than removable memory, for instance. Apple makes the least upgradable/repairable devices, but also lead most benchmarks for reliability (outside the occasional king-sized clunker, like the Mac SE power supplies and the large batch of Quantum hard drives whose lubricant dried out after 100 days on a Mac with a 90 day warranty).
Storing parts inventory that goes obsolete is a waste of space and capital. Apple raised eyebrows when their iPhones shipped with no user removable batteries. Five years later, only flip phones come with removable batteries.
Modern laptop computers are pretty much motherboard, screen, power supply, storage. Make anything below that “reparable”, and you will likely have a bigger, heavier, less reliable laptop.
My next desktop computer will have numerous slots, and will be somewhat upgradeable (Intel is not great these days on processor upgrades). I will also pay roughly double for the privilege.
If we used government guidelines instead of the market for our computing devices, we’d likely still be using “low-emissions” low glare Nokia 17” CRTs for our monitors. Compact fluorescent lightbulbs were forced on us when the LEDs would have outmuscled most of the venerable incandescent bulbs when the technology was mature (now), and we would have skipped all the mercury-laden kludge crap CFLs that are still polluting innocent light fixtures everywhere.