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I feel you're really overestimating the how willing and able normal people are to make repairs on today's anti-consumer laptops. Most people will just have a laptop for a few years at which point enough things will break that they'll just buy a new one.
Where framework comes in is it makes it possible for normal people, so when screen/touchpad/keyboard/ram etc. do finally go dead they can replace them, they can easily upgrade storage/ram/cpu etc instead of having to buy an entirely new device and so keep it around for far longer. Better for the environment and the consumer.
I also don't understand your hate of expansion cards. As I said, if you'd rather use dongles and stuff, go ahead, but most people do find it a hassle and most devices don't use thunderbolt/usb-c.
I don't think there's an issue of buying them either, they're one of most prominent thing framework sells and they have also open sourced all schematics and stuff. I've already seen some enthusiasts design and sell some cards, and once framework gets in the hands of enough people, I bet some larger third-party companies will start doing so as well. And that's still better than other laptops in which if you dent a port or something, it's pretty much useless forever. In fact with framework, even if you break all your cards and all ability to purchase more mysteriously disappears, you can still use the internal thunderbolt ports.