There is nothing fancy or proprietary about this, it's a usb-c to displayport adaptor that is designed to fit flush into the body. You can use the same adaptor on a macbook if you wanted to, and certainly don't need to shutdown the machine to do so.
> 2021-08-09: I added Tiger Lake LP support to pchgpio, enabling GPIO interrupt support for ihidev, which was needed to make the touchpad work properly in non-polling mode (and apparently not cause the EC to randomly freak out and power down the system).
> 2021-08-31: Closing the laptop’s lid does not currently cause an S3 suspend due to a bug in the DSDT of the Framework Laptop which references an invalid EC device in the ECDT. I’ve been told by Framework that this will be fixed in a future BIOS update.
> 2021-09-21: A fix has been committed for the touchpad not working after S3 resume.
Let's get the basics working first before we call Apple's products "shit".
https://frame.work/products/displayport-expansion-card