Not sure what the reports of thread being stripped has to do with this issue; there was no unusual resistance in either direction that would have required me to exert unusual torque with my frail little girly hands.
I’ve disassembled and reassembled multiple laptops over the last twenty some-odd years, including unscrewing and rescrewing the same SSD restraint screw on my previous laptop several times over the seven years I’ve used it. I have NEVER had any screw snap like that, never mind a brand new one. Just because it didn’t break for everyone, or even most people, does not mean it’s not substandard garbage.