Maybe for storage, but I've heard the RAM proximity is a significant part of why M1 is faster than Intel CPUs in benchmarks

Regardless, we shouldn't be fighting to force manufacturers to make products easier to repair, we should be fighting to make sure all parts needed to do a repair are available, and that should include software and all chips on a board. They don't need to sell those parts forever, just have them available for the life of the product (e.g. as long as the device is being sold or warrantied by the manufacturer). And they don't need to sell the parts themselves, only allow third parties to buy parts from theirb suppliers.

Once we have that, we can discuss repair-hostile design. But as long as parts aren't available, there's not really a point to forcing manufacturers to make it easier to make repairs.