This reminds me of how my bathroom fan was designed. I bought a new house recently, and the old bathroom fan was covered in gunk, loud, and had an older light bulb socket. Fortunately Broan [1] designed this thing well. I could take the fan and light portion out of the metal box fairly easily, and replace it with a newer, updated unit that fit the existing metal box perfectly.

This saved significant time installing the thing. I did not have to rewire it or reattach the exhaust. Sure, I did have to waste the old, defunct parts, but it's better than wasting the big metal box too.

I think there's a lot of long term value in making semi-modular appliances. What if you could take out the logic board of one of these speakers and replace it with something more current? That saves the speaker itself, the mesh on top, and the entire enclosing.

Trick is I don't know if most consumers would care / be savvy enough to do this. Laptops have been doing a semi-modular design for a while in 2005 - 2015, but no one really updated it - they just threw the entire laptop out and bought the latest and greatest. Makes me wonder why the same mentality doesn't apply to these Sonos speakers.

[1]: https://www.broan.com/Bath-Vent-Fan/Fans-with-Lights