@lispi314 @mikoto @wolf480pl >Those specialists cost a fortune (often enough to make buying a new machine more palatable) when they're available at all (which they aren't here, I'd need to commute for a long time or ship the machine at considerable expense). It is also concerning that so much stateful hardware (but hard to reflash by users) remains on a machine, such that if the repair specialist is malicious, they can get up to shenanigans nearly undetectably.

a huge part of the problem here is how uncommon board repair is, and this won't improve without manufacturers' cooperation

also, I don't really believe that memory or CPU failure is necessarily more common than other components that are *always* soldered down (ignoring design flaws like bumpgate or Intel's modern CPUs)
for example I would say that after storage (for which modularity does not imply any trade-offs, soldered SSDs are plain sabotage), power issues are likely the most common failure mode, yet you don't see motherboards with modular VRMs, and those would be infinitely easier to implement than any high speed data bus

that said, serviceability is obviously a good thing, and LPCAMM proves that sometimes it's just that the industry didn't bother optimizing for it when making trade-offs
as far as that framework board is concerned, I honestly don't know what kept them from using it, and I don't think we'll find out if they don't publish any details
it's still a very strange product