I don't see how data recovery is an issue. You should be backing up off-site and locally anyway. Why would you optimize for the specific case of most of the laptop dying but not the SSD? It's more likely your laptop will get stolen or lost or dunked in water or burned in a fire. The soldering will make no difference in that case. Use backups.

there is ZERO benefit to users of soldering an SSD or any other part. Its done purely for profit.

Stop conflating the issue with backups, the 2 have nothing to do with each other. Even if you take regular backups you can and will lose critical data when any $5 part on your $3-4k machine goes bad.

Amazing how far people will go to defend Apple.

Given that the encryption keys for the SSD are stored in the Secure Enclave, moving the SSD elsewhere wouldn't do you any good anyway.

...and that's the second problem they created.

Disaster recovery is not a backup, nor should it supersede physical security in importance. Time Machine solves all of these problems.

For the vast majority of home users, disaster recovery does supersede physical security in importance.

It might, when it's too late. But it still shouldn't, because better options exist that prevent a disaster in the first place.

I think that can be disabled, or encryption key exported for backup.

Anyway, it is stupid argument. It is like saying car does not need spare tire, because wheels are welded to save 10 ounces on bolts.