I definitely believe Apple is trying to make things as simple as possible for customer service repairs. It's easier to trouble-shoot a product if everything is in the original state. I'm not sure if Apple is carrying this too far but I do see an advantage to Apple. However, even if they swap the logic board for free, they still have my data information on it and I don't know where it's going to end up. If I'm able to wipe the "drive" before I turn it in for repairs, all well and good, but if it suddenly dies, I can't to anything to protect my secured data. Some non-bonded service person can do anything with that data. That's very frustrating. Maybe with the Touch ID (and secure enclave) system on the MacBook Pro everything stays secure, so that would help me sleep better at night.