I value autonomy more. I'm not someone interesting enough to observe, but I still want my privacy. I'm not so poor as that I have to take whatever I can get, but I still want to own what I buy, and have the freedom to do anything with it, including crimes if I so choose.

I won't commit crimes, and if I do I will pay the price, but I don't want a nanny to prevent me from doing precrimes that I would not have done in the first place.

I am not a mindless sheep, I require no societal shepherd.

All of that was said to say, I want the devices I purchase to be repairable by anyone that I deem worthy of repairing it, including myself.

fine, pair the parts, but also: let the owners unpair them, same as you can lock/unlock your phone. Voila! both repairability and anti-theft gained!

Pairing is just anti-repair atm.

if you want to know how: put the part ids (which are used for pairing) into the apple id account and verify them when switching on the phone.