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by asdff 1694 days ago
It's still an entire procedure. You have to remove the trackpad to access all the cells. Most users aren't going to be confident doing that to their $2000 laptop, they will continue doing what they do with glued in batteries today which is hand it off to a technician and playing the flat rate apple repair fee.

Pretty good was the first unibody macbook (open latch with one finger, remove door with two fingers, remove battery with two fingers, done):

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Unibody+Model+A1278+Bat...