I and tens of millions other people used removable back cover phones for years before the sealed phone became the norm.
Edit: Can anyone explain why they think that this is wrong? I am genuinely interested.
I really used user-removable battery phones for close to a decade. I found no issues.
I suspect it is this: > Only forced obsoleting by the company. No other reasons exist.
While companies do want you to buy the newest version every year or two, it is more likely that cost-benefit analysis tells them to build the way they build; they know they must release newer better phones periodically because the competition will do this also. But to support older phones has a cost, and at some point those old phones don't generate enough revenue to justify the cost of supporting them.
And then you can’t think of reasons for the downvotes?
I see a pattern, maybe?