Apple engineers don’t have specific mandate to make devices harder to repair, the are tasked to make devices cheaper to produce. It so happens that it also affects ease of repair.
For extreme example of this look at the Kindle - obviously it’s glued so it’s cheaper to make, but it makes it completely unrepairable.
For extreme example of this look at the Kindle - obviously it’s glued so it’s cheaper to make, but it makes it completely unrepairable.