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I have a hard time swallowing that marketing spin..... but that's possible because I spent ten years in Marketing and we had to come up with this type of "spin" quite often.Methinks you missed the main more logical reason — money. It's a fair bit cheaper to solder in the components during manufacturing production.
But definitely a good Apple PR explanation you provided.
Money is definitely a factor, the other I think, is this constant drive to make laptops thinner all the time.
Apple had to come up with a thinner MagSafe connector for their last MacBook... vintages before they went with USB-C, on the last 2017 MBa they had to place the USB 3.0 ports on opposite sides of the Mac, not both on the same side as previously.
Including connectors for RAM chips probably needed extra space they just did not have.