Why do they have to make everything so damn difficult to service these days? Maybe I'm just getting old and inflexible...
While I do resonate with your frustration here, it is not entirely their fault. Just today I was revisiting a circuit I built almost 20 years ago. Miniaturization was my primary design goal and then I had a fair bit of feature creep...serious density...let's just say it is NOT easy to work on.
All I'm saying is stop a minute and consider just what they are packing in there.