Thanks for the question, sorry to see others are taking it a bit more harshly. You seem chill.
For an explanation, it’s likely due to RND. Making the laptop as modular as it is costs alot in tooling along with paying the engineers to make it as good as we see. Where other laptops have pre-existing tooling in place, none exist for the form factor or concept here. That costs alot to design, build, set up, and train employees to use. Along with testing it to ensure it’ll actually work, and throw out what doesn’t.
This was a massive risk for them and an absurd investment, monetarily. I’m glad they’ve done this though. They could have made it less modular, taken out the modular keyboard, or have lowered the IO ports available, but it would have been a worse product. It was factoring of features vs cost and they made their decision farther to the feature side than the cost effectiveness side. Though I agree with their decision I can understand others preferring less features, like only adding on the graphics card.