4G is fast enough, especially LTE Advanced. 5G is already at the point of diminishing returns, not to mention 6G (if it even materializes, hopefully not).

“All these glued shut battery powered devices have a limited lifespan likely better measured in months over years anyway”

Well, that’s absolute nonsense, what are you basing that on?

“If you are willing to change a battery not meant to be user removable you should be willing to replace a worn flex for the keyboard etc.”

It wasn’t a matter of willing, I’m willing to do a lot of things when I have to. But the thing was like 2″ wide and carried about 50 needle-thin wires. Where would you even get a replacement for what was clearly a custom part? And assuming you could find a replacement, what are the odds you’d be able to install it correctly without breaking either it, or some other part of the device? Maybe for you, they’re incredible. For me, they were poor at best. I know my limitations.

Replacing a battery, past the ungluing, is usually a matter of pulling out one 2-wire connector. It’s not even in the same LEAGUE as repairing a side-slider’s main bus connection between the two halves.

All information about you.

You can’t see it from your confirmation bias.

Aside from the obvious , the biggest thing the iPhone did was give ownership of the phone experience back to the user instead of of the carrier . Every carrier had its own stupid interface. Sure the razor had buttons, but the UI was awful.

Apple seemed to do ok with some dubious purser supply decisions.