Why do I need the ability to repair boards on a workbench?
Do we have damaged boards other than the one in the nearest broken quad? No.
So what for?
We explore the abandoned bases and find a lot of circuit boards there and they are all intact. Not a single broken one. At the same time, all other equipment at these bases is broken, weathered and rusty. The boards are not broken.
So in order to increase the difficulty of the game and make repairing the boards at the workbench in demand, most of the boards in the abandoned bases should be damaged. Especially if these boards do not lie in a sealed box, but are obtained during the dismantling of buildings.
Plus, as an additional event, you can make it so that sometimes the boards are damaged either in the CO2 adsorber or in the transformer. But here the main thing is not to overdo it and keep a balance so that the player does not constantly deal with repairing one or another breakdown on the base. Let it be sometimes.