That is how the DIY model comes for everyone. The original plan was to have it come as a set of parts that the user would fully assemble themselves, but Framework ended up finding that it wasn’t logistically possible for them to do that, and ended up opting to make the DIY model assembled except for the RAM and SSD (Wifi card was originally separate, but that was changed when shipping first opened up to Europe.) Nirav details the original plans and why they had to change them in a blog post here.
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