MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2016 Butterfly Spacebar

I have a 2016 Macbook Pro and after 9 months I started having space bar issues (it would work 50% of the time). I read on the forums that the best way to address the problem would be to clean the dust underneath. I managed to get the spacebar off after watching some videos but couldn't put it back on so I went into Apple store. They told me the "butterfly" piece of the space bar is broken and I need to replace the entire keyboard which costs about $450. So bottom line, it's going to cost me $450 to replace spacebar on a 9 year old laptop. Insane. Has anyone been able to get this fixed without replacing the entire keyboard?