No, but I also can't imagine Apple shipping something that needed a bodge wire soldered in to make it work well. They do a lot more power consumption engineering than most PC companies and they operate on such a large scale that they'd have found out about a battery drain like this much sooner and could fix it in the production process.
Yeah, it's not like they had any hardware defects like broken keyboards, power management issues, blank watch screens, recalled batteries, weirdly places antennas, etc... Oh wait they just ignore those until the problem gets large enough they get into news and need to start honouring the warranties.
Kind of missing the point, I think the above commenter was noting that they couldn't imagine Apple ever encouraging someone to get intimate with the internals at all. I certainly can't. You might say, "Why would you want to," but it's more about "why not?" I guess that's all a roundabout way to say that Framework is pretty in-touch with the hacker mentality, whereas Apple is too far gone in that respect.
You mean like when Macbook display cables were too short and disconnected if you opened and closed the lid often enough, and Apple denied there was ever a problem while fixing it a generation later?
And it they would release a new and fixed version they would announced as if they had created a new form of life.