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Apple builds obsolescence into their products on purpose.
If you'd bought a PC, a faulty screen would be easily replaceable. I had to replace my laptop screen myself several years ago, and with a $60 part and ten minutes on youtube, it was an easy repair.
That will be 450$ and you'll have to send your device in for 3 weeks. -Apple Genius
Oddly enough, the reason why I did the repair myself was that the shop quoted me $400, haha. It's nice to live in a world where you can fix your own stuff, something that Apple also does their best to prevent.
It sounds like you quoted the "piss off price". They didn't really want to do it, so they just quoted a stupid amount of money if you'd taken them up on it it would have been worth it for them to do it but they were hoping you wouldn't.
Screen replacements for laptops are a pain because it's never all that obvious from the beginning how easy it will be. For you it was apparently simple but it depends massively on the laptop and they may not have an encyclopedic knowledge of which laptops are easy and which laptops are hard.