Well, truthfully, you don't own your Apple phones.

There are a lot of people ahead of you with more rights to your phone, that you paid for, than you.

• NSA
• Apple
• AT&T (carrier)
• Application programmers

Any one of these can turn your phone into a brick.
Any one of these can use your phone against you.
And you have no way to stop it.

So, "right to repair"? You don't even own it, what gives you the right to repair it? However, they will yield on the "right to repair" to avoid exposing that it isn't your phone.