You are willing to buy and put up with a cheap POS battery that has half the design life and half the real capacity (yes, deliberate exaggeration, but still nowhere near the same quality from your no-name supplier) as an original battery, you have that right. You do NOT have the right to EXPECT a manufacturer to help you do it. You ALSO don't have the right to expect them to supply you a part that requires expert installation when they don't know what kind of 1d10t you might be, and in their experience, those who want to DIY ARE 1d10ts, because they are NOT buying what Apple is selling, which is the Apple Ecology I've already described.
THAT is the core problem... people buying Apple because "it's the hawtness" and hating them because it's not what they really want, which is "the new hawtness" without actually having to pay for it. 
You don't have the right to expect them to support you in that unreasonable desire, or to design their product such that parts are easily replaceable just because you don't like it. Their design is what they're selling; the "sleek seamless thing" design is their stock in trade, FFS.
Same is true of the screen, and I've bought more than a few 3rd party screens... they are NOT anywhere near as good glass or digitizers. PERIOD. And the same is true of the buttons. They incorporate a security feature. That security feature was asked for by the majority of their customers. Your edge use-case is irrelevant here.
If you want the "Apple Hawtness", buy Apple product and be happy with it. If not, buy something else; Samsuck and Lucky GoldStar will gladly take your money. But FFS, stop bitching that Apple is Apple.
It's not like you didn't KNOW their phone/tablet/PC/dong polisher/WTF-ever was hermetically sealed when you bought it; it's a FUCKING ADVERTISED FEATURE.
mnem
Just say "No, thank you."
What I'm saying is yes, Apple is known for their stock-in-trade of being sealed and sleek etc, but none of that removes their stance on the right to repair. I'm NOT on about the right to buy and fit poorly designed items from 3rd parties, but the right to having your device fixed by Apple or authorised agents BUT using genuine Apple replacement parts built to the same spec as originally fitted, the same is true for batteries then there wouldn't be a possible Grenfell 2, at a sensible and affordable price and within a reasonable time frame.
The same can be said for other manufacturers who have a similar outlook, the time has come to act responsibly, the planet cannot accept this amount of built-in throwaway concept. I do not for a single moment believe Louis Rossman would ever fit cheap counterfeit and dangerous parts in his repairs, this is why he and so many others are lobbing congress for the right to be able to access genuine parts so the original design integrity is maintained throughout the products' life. He and others are not seeking to have access to the code so that they can rewrite code, all they want is for the parts to be made accessible at sensible prices without the need for software locks etc. So if a digitizer is at fault, or the chip that handles the digitizer is faulty, then getting those parts etc from Apple and replacing them does not involve them in having access to the software so the software integrity remains 100% intact and no breach in security is made.
There is a whole world of "knee-deep in the hoopla" in what you suggest. Please bear with me; this is at least a 3-flagon move... 
First off... I do not hold LR's "standards" in the high regard you do. I've seen him call "fixed" repairs I wouldn't let out the door under ANY circumstances; I would literally remove all of it and tell the customer it couldn't be repaired safely or reliably. I have no doubt that if he knew he could get away with it, he'd install the cheap shit; especially if he could phrase it as a "this is an almost as good (it's not) clone part; it costs 1/3 the real thing" decision and make it the customer's choice. I honestly have no doubt he does this off-screen all the time. He's a fucking carny barker, NOT a technician or disgruntled engineer as he might have you believe.
Now into the real hoopla...Your analogy is faulty; the technology in question is NOT a necessity like a car or truck, it is a LUXURY. PERIOD. What they manufacture does not NEED to exist. As such,
it is unreasonable to try and hold the manufacturers of such gear to the "repairability" standards reasonable for a car or house or furnace, for example. Even THOSE necessities are being driven by the corporate "The bottom line is the bottom line" mentality into providing repair as a "replace a module" rather than "replace a single part" scenario. As long as we as a species continue to worship the almighty Corporation, they will never change that mentality; repair rather than turnover is the antithesis of their very DNA.
Driven by customer demand, the technology involved in modern "portable computing" devices has been forced to develop some pretty sophisticated security technology of its own; many of these technologies are provided in hardware "jellybeans" that are like a sausage grinder: The signal goes in, a different signal comes out, but don't you DARE look at what goes on inside. Due to demands for end-user privacy,
there is some VERY sensitive security-related technology in a modern phone or tablet... as in "National Security" type sensitive. The technology in many cases is such that a manufacturer is prohibited by contract or even international treaties or National Security regulations from selling that part EXCEPT as a component in a completed product. Keeping track of this is another thing that is EXPENSIVE, as is the need to keep how YOUR systems connect to that technology privileged.
Simply providing a schematic diagram of that is in many cases one of the first keys a ne'er-do-well needs to start exploiting that security. And now we come down to the final bit... cost. Maintaining the kind of security a manufacturer like Apple needs comes with a lot of different kinds of cost; there's money, there's R&D IP, there's managing the physical security of the product being manufactured during manufacture & assembly by 3rd parties such that cheap copies of your product aren't released by other parties before you can deliver.
One of the key strategies in that particular aspect is also the most costly: compartmentalizing in the same way as we and Germany did during our wartime atomic weapons development. In a mass-production scenario, this means buying assemblies in huge lots, which then have to be meticulously accounted for until they're permanently part of that product. That has evolved into a completely different attitude towards repair than we consider normal for automobiles; that
the BEST means of assuring security is to MAKE SURE EVERY PART MANUFACTURED ONLY COMES TO YOU. You have 110% of your assemblies made; you manufacture your 100% quantity of product, you save 10% for manufacturing failure rework and warranty repair, and you keep the rest for your service centers. PERIOD. Once you've done that transaction, the product is DONE. PERIOD. Not revisiting means no worries of countefeit parts made using your designs, and you can say with 100% confidence that any parts not installed by your ASPs is counterfeit.
By working this way, yes you annoy some people who think you should provide your luxury product at a price they consider reasonable...
but you completely eliminate a huge security concern in OTHER PEOPLE'S ACCOUNTING of your sensitive hardware, while at the same time sidestepping a whole new and expensive ecosystem in "being a parts counter".
There's a reason for the old joke about "If you built a '57 Chevy out of parts, it would cost 1/4 million dollars" or whatever the numbers are now:
being a parts distributor is a WHOLE ECOSYSTEM unto itself, and it is the keeping track of and storing those parts for resale that is what makes that collection of '57 Chevy parts so fucking expensive.
And finally... you wind up with the ages-old argument over what price for parts is "reasonable". If you actually had to pay cost of manufacture & delivery from overseas plus actual cost of SECURE warehousing, accounting, picking and shipping/restocking of say a new LCD/Digitizer... you'd realize that while the new part probably only costs 2-3x what the cheap clone part cost...
it is the SECURE HANDLING that costs real money.Now... add on top of that... the cost of managing all the training and reference to assist hacks like LR in "repairing" the completed product that is in fact your bread and butter... shit,
you'd be building whole Universities to train people to properly repair these things. To train people to go to work doing cheap repairs of the luxury item which is your bread & butter, and which you KNOW that
once they have that education, 4 out of 5 are going to install the cheap clone parts and fuck you up the arse, while at the same time costing you aggravation in dealing with illegitimate repairs as if they should be warrantied, and
even worse, tarnishing your reputation with the people who actually HAVE bought into the whole aspirational "Upwards" branding that is your stock in trade.
You think an iPwn is expensive NOW? Adding the whole ecosystem of support ecosystems you suggest would TRIPLE the pricetag. 
You don't REALLY think a corporation would EAT that cost just to make a few whiny cheapasses happy, do you...?
mnem
*a not-whiny cheapass*
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