Apple designs its products so that they are hard to repair then cites this as a reason not to let anyone else do it.

Discussing right to repair as a matter of costs is missing the most important part of the issue: our control over technology. Apple computers today don't permit replacing the nonfree software. If someone gave me one, my quandary would be whether it is less wrong to sell it to a would-be user or give it away for recycling. To keep it and use it would not be an option.