Jesus, that sounds terrible! I feel lucky my own MBP 2015 has fared without much problems although I did drop it once it which caused the bottom cover's screws pop out one by one in half a year. Bottom cover replacement + replacing a swollen battery (which naturally requires replacing the keyboard) have been the only repairs I've had to do. And charger. I feel the charger wires could be a lot sturdier.

But I hope I'll get at least 5 years more out of it. Although buying a new cool M2 MBP sounds tempting I feel for me there is no particular reason to do so. If I can run an editor, Chrome, some Docker containers and the laptop works well, I feel work-wise I'm pretty much set.

Certainly the OS updates will stop at some point which conveniently will then phase out my MBP. Oh well.