From a personnel point of view it is a simplification. A robotic line that produces 10x the number of devices with 1/100th the number of personnel may well be worth the capital investment and once it runs it's a black box. Vs the complexities that you get with traditional manufacturing where a lot of the work is so complex that it can not yet be roboticized.

If the final product is more geared towards automatic manufacturing that is in fact a form of simplification. I'm quite curious how these sound in practice compared to similar weight/size regular devices.

Headphones and cellphones would be an obvious first application.