Fortunately or unfortunately, this change is also political. Vote for the right people. Hey involved in local elections. Right to your local politicians. Attend town meetings if possible.
Narrow point? The argument was that Google themselves don't fix the smart watch, but Apple wouldn't do such a thing. My point is that Apple does the same. How else would you want the counter arguments to be?
I presentes you Louis Rosmann, a subject expert in the field and one of whole world's leading advocate on right to repair. His channel has investigations on thousands of right to repair violations and scams from companies. What else would you expect? You don't want trust a random commenter on the internet but you also don't want to listen to the leading advocate in this domain either? Then maybe use the search function in YouTube, Google or in ChatGPT because please don't expect the said random commenter to spend their own time curating to spoon feed you information.
Apple does the same. Not a third party, Apple themselves will NOT repair some broken devices that have broke because of Apple's design issues. Again, I urge you to watch Louis Rosmann. He has covered many instances of these.
You should give Google a hard time because what they are doing it is shitty. But Apple is not the answer. They do the same and more. The difference is that unlike Google, Apple won't let someone else repair it either.
think the difference is that Apple products can NOT be repaired
There, fixed it for you.
I recommend that you watch Louis Rossmann on YouTube. He regularly presents how Apple prohibit repairs by third parties either by adding software locks to simple parts, prohibiting parts contractors from selling spare parts, donating to anti-repair lobbying group among many other practices.
Migrating to Apple because Google didn't repair a product is a very weird move. Both of those companies are to be blamed, but Apple much more in my instances.