No trimpots, no slug-tuned coils to tweak. Circuit board is shorter than the radio's enclosure, leaving a 2-inch (or so) gap between the front edge of the circuit board and the front panel.
All the missing adjustments are now performed by analog outputs from the radio's computer/controller. A service menu provides access to settings that take the place of the old mechanical trim adjustments. Not so different from the way computerized ham radios evolved from the 80s with two dozen knobs and a dozen switches on the front panel to what we see now, three knobs and dozens of menus.
The "cheap" remark isn't so far off the mark, For every physical component they leave out, production cost is reduced by that tiny amount. Program code is vastly cheaper to reproduce in a factory than mechanical adjustments and variable components.
Not sure if that's what you meant, but cost saving is the objective behind the design.
Always has been.
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