In doing an "everyone knows" assessment, you should analyze iFixit scores over time, which is what reputation is built on, rather than a point in time. Additionally, we're talking about Apple as a whole, not just one product. They've had several Macbooks that had scores of 1/10, and the Airpods received a 0/10. Even a recent iPhone had its score reduced from a 7/10 down to a 4:

https://www.ifixit.com/News/82493/we-are-retroactively-dropp...

(I'm a happy Apple user across all of their products, but I have no illusion that they're easily repairable)