The e-up! also was at a quite attractive price - but they only allowed people to order it for like 2 months and then the ‘production queue was filled up, so no reservations for the next 12-14 months’

IMHO it should not really mean shorter batteries. Might we loose 5% capacity or something like that for them to be more repairable? Probably.

But the option to manually replace the battery will - over the life of the device - outweigh that in my opinion.

My phone is now 4 years old - the main reason why I’m considering getting a new one is the battery life degrading. It still has ~80% battery health left - enough to get me through a non-demanding day but not enough for a more regular one.

If I could just replace the battery - I’d have done that already. But also I’ll have to replace it next year anyways as it’ll be EOL on security patches.