I am not sure where I land on this issue, I am not entirely sold that it should have been filled to the brim and packed tightly but it does seem like they could have done better either for repairability or at least having things like a headphone jack and maybe better speakers (I have read that speakers can do better with more hollow space without adding much weight but I’m not knowledgeable enough)
The comments have a lot of good viewpoints
Kind of annoying, they could have used that space for a bigger battery, bigger heatsink, memory card reader, more ports, etc.
That would of course raise the cost though
It would, and would also only apply to a very small minority of people that are stuck in the past. But the increased price would effect everybody.