My problem isn’t with affording a replacement, but with Apple providing such terrible service. Allowing this to drag out, potentially more than 2 months, is crazy to me. They’re 1.5 months in a giving “some day” timelines. This would never be acceptable elsewhere, and it shouldn’t be here.
If you use devices that belong to big corporations then you aren't paying for service you are paying to be a servant. They have the better products because they have to treat their customers as idiots. If you accept a product that treats you like an idiot be prepared to spend like one. That's why I am.