The Repairable PC Is Dead

If you are truly a PC enthusiast, how can something like this ever happen? Could you imagine owning a computer that you didn't build? eek!
We are both dyed-in-the-wool PC enthusiasts, tinkerers and system builders by nature. We have both built, fixed, optimized and upgraded so many systems over the course of our professional lives that we lost count after the first few hundred, however many years ago that was.