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The "SIM card issues" article is a generic troubleshooting document, not specific to this phone. (It even mentions that some iPhone models don't have SIM cards.)

but should it then even be listed there?

All the iPhones sold in India comes with SIM card slot including 17 series.

The iPhone Air, however, does not.

(Which is technically in line with you saying “17 series”, since there’s no number in the Air’s name. But your comment makes no sense unless you thought the Air was included in that, and so…)

See: https://www.telegraphindia.com/gallery/at-5-6mm-ultra-slim-i...

The US model only has eSIM. The Chinese model has dual SIM. All other regions have one SIM tray and support eSIM.

On the regular models, the iPhone Air in China will only have eSIM, along with the European models.

This is the only time I've considered sim tray removal acceptable, because there's physically no where for it to go.

Apart from all that junk space next to the camera lens.