Shout out to URTechDotCa who was the only reason I could do this without losing my mind.
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I will second Dell not being repairable anymore - I had a Latitude 7280 which needed a keyboard replacement, and what an absolute pain in the arse that was because much like this post shows, most of the laptop has to come apart and then the keyboard is still held in with 50 goddamn screws.
I later found one of my friends had a similar era Latitude with the same keyboard design also fail in the same way mine did - if it doesn't get used in a while, keys stop working or become intermittent, and you need to spend hours mashing each key repeatedly to restore functionality, until the next time that laptop sits.
Edit: I know that it wasn't always this way because I owned a 2012 Latitude E6420, and that is the most modular laptop I've ever had and it was easy to repair, including the keyboard.