Repairable means I can replace most major components in my laptop (wifi, ram, battery, SSD, BT, etc) with nothing more than a torx and screw driver. No soldering, or specialized equipment.
This is obviously somewhat subjective, but to me soldering does not disqualify something being "repairable", unless it requires a proprietary soldering machine or something. What you're describing sounds "modular"
When a repair requires soldering, it significantly reduces the number of people who can do that repair themselves. I can do it, but most of my non-technical friends could not, even though several of them could replace a hard drive or even a DIMM in their desktop PC.
On thinking about it more I agree with you. A very simply soldered thing is maybe ok, but the vast, vast majority of soldered things are no-gos for repairs for non-pros. It's too easy to damage components and destroy the board, even if you know how to do it. If the Framework required soldering, I'd be very critical about it's repairability/modularity, so I'm being inconsistent.
I don't think it should be required that my grandma should be able to fix it for it to qualify as repairable. There are tons of phone repair shops that do battery and screen swaps. I'm sure if the devices were even moderately more repairable and parts existed they would be happy to do a lot more with expert knowledge. I wouldn't mind if I could take my device to these shops and get it fixed. Sure, doing it myself may be a nice bonus but I think we can let some people specialize. What I don't think is acceptable is if only the original manufacture can source parts or perform repairs (if they decide to at all)
Add power supplies to that list. In my experience it's by far the most common component to die, and sometimes it's hopelessly and needlessly integrated.
