What even is this?

Like imagine this behaviour in any other place. People are peacefully eating their business lunch during lunch break and you barge in while screaming "HAHA IM NOT A FAN OF EATING OUT, ITS MORE FINANCIALLY EFFECTIVE TO COOK AT HOME, I'D RATHER BUY COMPONENTS THAN THE WHOLE MEAL." People would look at you like you are insane.

You aren't breaking any new ground when you say this, we are aware of the drawbacks of laptops, but their upsides make them still worth it to us. Oh and also, slapdash components that you need to roll the dice on (because laptops HAVE to function right outta the factory :)), purchase separately, assemble and troubleshoot yourself (good luck factoring THAT into the cost) are less expensive than a precision-engineered piece of metal with a ton of bespoke parts for each laptop model? You don't say. I had to deal with a bad GPU (literally died, no video out 3 days into use, RMAd), a bad mobo(sound chip offed itself 2 months in), a bad memory set(doesn't run at advertised XMP speeds without instability) and a bad CPU(needs a massive voltage boost to be stable, otherwise it BSODs/Kernel panics at idle voltages). The only problem I dealt with on a laptop that wasn't solvable within minutes was when my motherboard seemingly croaked about 9 years into the laptop's life and even that was fixed by a PCB repair technician (lAPtOps AreNOT rEpAiRaBlE)