MCFA has been going in this direction for a while now, so have many other mfg's.
this is cosmetic mostly but as far as components they are trending into isolating components into non-servicable units forcing tech's to replace instead of repair. This trend has been going on for several years now.
I think dave's idea is to put machines together like leggo's, each system integrated into blocks, if a component in one block goes bad you just unplug the block and install a new one instead of trying to repair what part went bad inside that block. You send the block back to the mfg and they will recondition it and make it available for resale or return to the customer to reinstall on the unit.
The concept looks good on paper but putting it into a real world situation has been somewhat of a challenge for most mfg's due to cost. (i'm sure other engineering and logistical problems also). Otherwise they all would have done this long ago.
If you really think about it, this may be one reason our illustrious dave has not produced anything yet. Nobody with any weight and the resources will back him on this because they have already looked into it. IE: it's too cost prohibitive to do.
In todays world everything is driven by profit margins so as i said above, if this was worth it it would have already been done long ago.
Make sense?