Maybe, if for some reason we stop manufacturing things with complex shapes via injection molding (which is, like, super cheap on big scale) or similar processes, and come back to “constructing them from a lot of generic parts, preferably easily recycleable”. Also semiconductor components (actual microcontrollers, or displays, and in some cases whole boards if they are tiny enough, because of how many effort they require) are not really repairable, you just replace broken components.
Edit: Also whole economy of scale go against this. Repairing stuff (now) is usually about individual products, hard to automate, and requires skill, also means complex logistics. Manufacturing tons of the same stuff cheapens over time, required less skill for each individual part or product and in general is highly automated.
Continuing on “there’s not something there”, what about theater analogy to llm’s? Usually people know it’s all act, but if actors play too good, you immerse. And it’s focus is not the truth, it tells the story.