"I'm completely fine monetarily with tossing a phone in the garbage if it breaks and getting a new one"
Maybe. There are non-economic reasons to consider repair instead of replacement, or there would be if repair was a feasible option. For example, maybe someone feels a moral obligation to reduce the demand for tantalum (or to not personally add to it):
Apple has basically thrown their hands up and said, "It's just too hard to keep Congolese tantalum out of the supply chain." Meanwhile, their products are hard to repair and encourage people to just buy replacements (and thus consume more tantalum, some of which is paying for the worst war crimes imaginable)...
Maybe. There are non-economic reasons to consider repair instead of replacement, or there would be if repair was a feasible option. For example, maybe someone feels a moral obligation to reduce the demand for tantalum (or to not personally add to it):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_minerals
Apple has basically thrown their hands up and said, "It's just too hard to keep Congolese tantalum out of the supply chain." Meanwhile, their products are hard to repair and encourage people to just buy replacements (and thus consume more tantalum, some of which is paying for the worst war crimes imaginable)...