I don’t think so. I think it is more simple. People buy the laptop because they don’t want to hassle with all the nonsense surrounding all the peripherals. There is no anonymous neutral way to shop any more. If you need to research and buy a bunch of stuff, the predatory nonsense is awful. You can’t search to find honest info as search results are manipulative garbage and nondeterministic. Asking online is just as sketchy, and places like Amazon are strait up privateering (legal piracy) with a categorical system that is an outright price fixing scam. You are far less likely to get scammed by the US neo feudal criminal oligarchy if you simply make a single purchase. And that is exactly what they want as it will allow further consolidation and control in the long term as the system collapses further.

It is a result of all the proprietary bullshit and scams. Like all the HDMI stuff is a closed conglomerate scam of incompatible nonsense. Displays are just as terrible on the high end. It is a ton of research and filtering through the absolute shit ton of marketing departments that are worse than worthless for anything useful, factual, or technical. Most of the time the front page of a commercial hardware vendor might as well be colored drawings by kindergartners on a website for their school. That would have more relevant information.

I think it is likely that most people that buy a laptop like these, see the shit show and the scam market and say fuck that, just give me a single product that mostly works. It is ultimately the result of the failure of net neutrality, the US corporate ownership of all the relevant hardware companies which makes where you are located irrelevant, and failing capitalism. Like deterministic pricing of goods without rigged scales in a market is a social issue that was a problem fit for 2k years ago. That kind of regression with nondeterministic pricing and information access is beyond criminal and a failure of fundamental human rights.