It makes sense, since this comes in response to new EU regulations that mandate hardware manufacturers to make battery replacement easier. The Nintendo Switch battery is glued on, so in order to follow these new regulations Nintendo would have to...
In my experience, the PS5 controllers are just as bad, and seem significantly harder to repair, plus they don't offer free replacements. (Everything before Switch/PS5 has been fine.)
Every time I see people talking about RAM prices finally going down, I go over to look at the price charts on PCPartPicker and absolutely nothing has changed.