[–] Handroid7 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago (edited ago)
The EU nearly passed an anti-non-replaceable battery law in early 2020.
Your phone now has a shelf life
In other words: Planned obsolescence.
And I was even happy when both options existed. But as described in that article, the worse successfully usurped the better, sadly.
Also, sadly, the world is infested with degenerates who favour premium design over functionality, also known as form-over-function advocates.
And Google is imposing iOS-tier cancer (enforced scoped storage) upon users, without official option to grant selected applications normal access, non-verbally begging users to root their devices.