Yes, the quality seems to have decreased in the quest for ever thinner screens and lighter computers. We all love lighter laptops (when I pick up my wife’s Air I nearly throw it to the roof it’s so unexpectedly light!) but there comes a point where it stops being practical.
These are laptops - sorry, no they’re not, they are notebooks — if they called them laptops you might want to use them on your lap and then you might burn your legs so they tell you to place them on a flat surface like a table…
I rarely travel with mine but for people who travel with them every day, I have no idea how they survive.