Approximately no one ever breaks their AirPods, so the amount of waste eliminated through better repairability would almost certainly be non-existent.
“Not virtue signalling is evil”
“Doing performative things that don’t actually improve anything but make nerds feel happy is good”
Repairability comes with tradeoffs, I like the fact that I can wear my AirPods in the shower.
It just doesn’t seem in any way reasonable to assume that “evil” is the simplest explanation here, especially since nobody is repairing the repairable wireless earbuds anyway.
If approximately nobody wants to repair their earbuds, why accept any design tradeoffs in the name of repairability? I can’t see it.
But yeah, in that scenario it would be utterly nonsensical to force Apple to enable something which nobody wants.
Things obviously aren’t as bad as you want to communicate, otherwise you would not have to rely on strawmen like this.