Right to repair is nearly meaningless on the budget-end as a repair guy will charge £50 to £100 for the labour plus parts with their own mark-up.

Does everyone on hackernews get paid £100k a year and spend over £1,000 on a phone?

A repair in Romania (EU, unlike UK) has a labor cost of 10-20EUR depending on the complexity; in most cases the "repair" is just replacing a component that has connectors, so it takes minutes, or swapping a new battery. A £100 fee sounds like science-fiction or lack of common sense.

A fee of 100-120 euros is not unusual in a part of the EU that isn't dirt poor, nothing science fiction about it.

If a person can’t afford expected repair expenses during the useful lifetime of a product, then they can’t afford that product.

You wouldn’t buy a car either without planning for repair costs.