This feature and fb's hate for it makes me seriously consider moving back to. iOS.
How easy is it to port contacts and texts over from the Google ecosystem?
It's great Apple pretty much delivers identical devices on a same product line except on the disk space. It's more than the disks for laptops but this means everyone pretty much gets the same experience even if you get the cheapest version and you don't have to go through the technical spec sheet that most people don't understand to figure what you're missing from the more expensive versions or you're physically missing on some features.
You'd rather get the same stuff at cheaper price if you don't care about disk space. It's not the disk space is more expensive than market price...
Fortunately, servicing the iMac RAM is easy in present generations.
You could argue that the tax incorporated in the price comes down with depreciation though.
That being said, there are still some useful tweaks that convince people into doing it, and of course if one wants to just test their apps without worrying about signing them.