I think assuming that this is a disposable, non-serviceable machine is a bit premature. Yes the RAM and SSD are soldered to the mainboard, but otherwise it looks like this might be Apple's most serviceable computer in a long time.
TBF my friends who were getting business degrees struggled with their 8 gigs pc. When they need to run something like SPSS next to a chrome instance, their ram got tight pretty fast.
