People have a lot of pretty valid issues with Framework. When you optimize as hard as they do for repairability, upgradeability, and modularity, you are going to make some sacrifices in other arenas that won't be to everyone's liking, and that's totally fine. But the one criticism that I haven't quite understood is price.
Yes, Framework is more expensive....the first time. But from then on (and for the 13, this is now 3 or 4 generations I believe), buying a new mainboard with a latest gen chip is going to be the cheapest you can get those specs for. Yeah, a used laptop might still be cheaper, but it won't be the same specs, and if used is what you want, you can probably get a used mainboard from the last gen that someone else is upgrading from for even cheaper.
Unless you are someone who thrashes their laptops so hard that you expect to need to replace not just the mainboard, but also the screen, keyboard and chasis, then framework represents by far the cheapest way to keep getting new laptop specs into the future.
I'm not even someone who upgrades laptops very often (every 5 years or so, historically), and even on that schedule, and I still thing that long term it will be cheaper. If you are someone who upgrades more often, then it makes an even bigger difference.
Again, to be clear, I think there are very valid reasons that a Framework might not be the right laptop for someone. I just thing that thinking about the one-time purchase price of the entire laptop is completely missing the entire point of Framework.
