A good opportunity to move away from this tier of locked-down garbage devices, which include, among other, consoles (Xbox, PlayStation), streaming boxes (Apple, Amazon, Google), phones with locked bootloaders (Apple, Samsung), Internet-of-Shit home appliances that depend on the "cloud" and non-free apps, and others.

Move to what?

Do I not have to buy RAM and an SSD if I opt for a Framework?

Your point is orthogonal to the fact that the price increases are at a level that affects ANY computing device.