Yup 100%. Unfortunately most manufacturers are adopting this model. I work in the tech field, and my organization is primarily Dell and Apple. We originally got a contract with Dell years ago due to their ability to be repaired and parts being upgraded or swapped. Our latest device upgrade for staff and faculty all the models have the RAM soldered to the main board. We still have an employee that can repair many of the Apple devices, but you need someone certified in Apple pretty much to work on it. For most people that means taking it to the Apple store.Apple has moved farther away from upgradability/repairability over the years, not toward it. To upgrade an Apple product you basically buy a new one.
Believe it or not, the worst device for repairability is actually the Windows Surface laptop. If you need anything repaired on it you basically have to send it back to Microsoft. It was rated the worst to repair by several different tech sites.
With that said, my devices are mostly Apple. They just tend to last a bit longer, and I used to be Windows only due to the previous environments I worked in. We get 4-5 years if we are lucky out of a Dell or other Windows device before it becomes too slow to be usable. We have several faculty clinging on to their old Apple devices (8+ years old) that work fine, but we are trying to get them to upgrade from due to older OS being out of our security requirements.