No computer or laptop is ever bifl. Ever. BIFL means just some maintanance here and there, or no maintanance at all. Computers and laptops become outdated and sluggish on average within 3 to 5 years of manufacture if you're going to be pushing the hardware for, say, rendering, video editing, compiling, etc. Meaning you're going to have to replace some parts (for Desktop PCs it's usually either the GPU or CPU), which framework doesn't enable without either getting a whole new mobo or you getting a used better one from ebay or Craigslist.

The lowest cost mobo/cpu if you wanted to upgrade would be £820 for me for the i5-1250P cpu, which is obtainable in low end £400 and, sometimes, even shitty and flimsy £300 laptops. ANY laptop will last 3 to 5 years (the average desktop replacement/upgrade rate) if you treat it right, even if you push it to its limits. And at that point, where a cpu upgrade is worth double the amount of a brand new laptop with the same cpu? Or the alternative cpu that will come out in 3 or 4 or 5 years time? I just don't see the point.

Repairability is nice, but if I have to keep repairing it, it's not very BIFL, is it? I mean, you can repair most normal laptops whether that be screen, keyboard, track pack, new USB ports, etc, if you actually decide to sit down and spend a few hours following YouTube tutorials.

Don't get me wrong, I love the framework platform. I love the modularity, it reminds me of the modular phones that were released YEARS back that everyone thought were going to last you a lifetime too. And I also love the fact that you can do ANYTHING to the laptop too, if you want to modify it, just buy the inside hardware and make a liquid-cooled pc built into your desk, or smash it onto the back of your monitor on your desk because you hate cables, you can do it all. But I genuinely don't believe this is BIFL, nor does repairability make it so.