Tu further remarked that the laptop is not great from an environmental standpoint either – recycling its material won’t be easy, or cheap.
If they are producing them, this is their job, to make them more sustainable in terms of the hazardous materials used (and the ability to remove them safely), the way in which precious metals are harvested from them (reducing usage of thin layers of them which are inherently difficult to recycle), and for repair and reuse.
Why doesn’t this person understand who makes the profit? Sounds like their job also.