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You might as well. If you’re going to trash it anyway, good odds you’re not going to hurt anything by loosening some screws and seeing what’s what.
Spoiler. On fixable things, it’s usually the on/off switch. I think they deliberately make them out of cheap plastic that will eventually break. Plug in oil heaters. Mixers. Lamps with foot switches. Etc.
My family has always liked working on things that are broke - what can go wrong, you were going to throw it anyway and sometimes you can fix it. If you can't fix it a vacuum in parts fits in the trash better than it put together, and sometimes you get a working vacuum. (the implication here is you don't put it together unless you think it will work)
Sometimes it's worth putting it back together just to practice. I remember my dad giving me an old radio and a screwdriver just to keep me busy as a very young kid. After I had it all apart, he asked if I could put it back together. Kept me out of his hair for a while longer and gave me confidence that maybe I too could put things back together.