I am not sure where I land on this issue, I am not entirely sold that it should have been filled to the brim and packed tightly but it does seem like they could have done better either for repairability or at least having things like a headphone jack and maybe better speakers (I have read that speakers can do better with more hollow space without adding much weight but I’m not knowledgeable enough)
The comments have a lot of good viewpoints
I don’t really see this as a bad thing, sooner or later someone’s going to come up with a battery mod for these that doubles or triples run time and I’m here for it.
Edit: Re: tablet design- your can’t really make the device super skinny or they get hard to hold so the extra space in the housing might just be designed in so the tablet is easier to handle. My eink tablet is super thin and pretty easy to drop, I don’t have that issue with my larger/thicker Samsung tablet.