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Maybe I am wrong (never owned a Apple device) but from following a bit the right to repair debate it looks to me like they are actively trying to prevent 3rd party repairs. And they seem to have (had) at least plausible reasons for this.
Due to the mono-culture and relatively long service life of their devices it is easy to make nock-off replacement parts and accessories of substantially lower quality. And given that Apple is selling the original accessories and spare-parts for ridiculously high prices this "fake" product market seems to have been booming for a while. So Apple had to deal with a lot of support issues coming from 3rd party spare-parts and accessories.
A reasonable company would have decided that their customers would probably chose 1st party spare-parts and accessories if they were available and affordable, but Apple doubled down and started a war against repairability and all sorts of scare campaigns about using 3rd party chargers etc.
Apple deny this, but I definitely think that's part of it. They take the idea of a walled garden to an extreme and try to remove third parties from the equation wherever they can.