[ffsm8]

Couldn't you just upgrade yourself in the pre Apple silicone days?

Like within minutes, with no big changes?

I didn't think it's rare that a company refuses to do any work on devices they no longer support. Their employees will no longer be trained to do this work, hence they'd have a nontrivial chance of causing damages. That's exactly why a right to repair is so important, so that other people can pick up their slack

[lloeki]

Back when RAM and HDD were using standard parts, Apple packaged manuals with documentation as to how to proceed to such upgrades.