The prime majority of laptops of the market don't come with original engineering. It's almost always outsourced to no-name Taiwanese engineering shops, which largely copy-paste designs for internals, and mechanical engineering for every brand around.
SB simply doesn't look to me it went through any of such design shops, and the engineering school feels very American (it's "one and done" assembly, they tried very hard to use less fasteners, and subassemblies.)
At the same time they repeated the same mistakes that Taiwanese had 20-15 years ago.
2. Complete lack of modularity, serviceability, and odd assembly order. This means minor changes will need mobo redesign. And defect found after test, or on return equals scrapping the unit.
3. Custom mechanical parts used liberally
4. Too many programmable ICs
5. Extremely wasteful use of case space to work around rigidity issues.
Do you think it's a necessary tradeoff? Are other laptops with custom designs subject to the same internal engineering mistakes?
I know nothing about that - was speaking purely from an end user UX perspective
not sure what you're basing your opinion on. maybe people near you have more issues, I dunno.