Honestly doesn't surprise me. I hold the same kind of sentiment after spending $1200~ on a brand new iphone 14 pro max just to find that I had to buy the charger brick so I could plug it into a wall. Come on Apple. Eliminating QOL things doesn't just automatically equal improvement.
Perhaps they should have made the charger optional... but completely agree overall with the decision not to include it.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21514480/apple-iphone-ch...
The only argument is "well, then they should have dropped the price of the phone." Okay dropped it relative to what? "Obviously relative to last year's price." Why? There is/was heavy inflation and other products became more expensive but the iPhone didn't. At most you are complaining about shrinkflation.
I’m pleased Apple stopped adding enormous amounts of ewaste by not producing tens or hundreds of millions of these things every year for the majority of people who do not need them.
I think it'd be great if Apple offered a small discount for opting out of unnecessary items.
Androids have their fancy ~100W fast charging where all of the charge controlling is in the brick for thermal reasons and those require special proprietary chargers that become obsolete after a generation, but Apple doesn't do that.
Or they could just include a 20 watt usb c charger with my $800-1200+tax and activation fees phone and not force me to spend another $60 on their power adapter. though to be fair a third party option would certainly be less expensive.