How often have you needed to repair a MacBook?

The enhanced repairability is basically insurance in case of a fault. Compared to a MacBook, or insurance for a MacBook, this insurance is overpriced.

As for the environment, the power consumption + larger design with extra parts to make it repairable + how few people ever buy parts makes this a virtue signaling wash.

Depends, once you get a crumble or a speck of dust in the keyboard there aren't that many options.

The whole thing is fragile as hell; macbooks don't get dents, they turn into dust on impact, just like iphones.

I’m not the OP but for me, with my mid-2015, I had the battery replaced once. This was used almost every work day until 2023. My M2 Pro MBP I then bought, never so far (as you would expect for its age) and it still feels brand new.

In the 15 years I've known her, my wife has needed to repair each of her 3 MacBooks at least once (One of them twice).

In the same time, I've had to repair one Gigabyte laptop. The second Gigabyte that needed repair, I trashed and just stopped buying Gigabyte.

That's the problem with Apple. They're build quality isn't that great, but you don't have an alternative.

Funnily enough, I had to get my M1 Pro repaired on day 1 of receiving. It had a defect in the screen that caused a white horizontal line. I was livid!