This entire ordeal would have been so much less impactful to both Samsung and the end users if they simply went down the old and proven replaceable battery rout

This entire ordeal would have been so much less impactful to both Samsung and the end users if they simply went down the old and proven replaceable battery route. Not to mention it'd very likely be much more economical and eco-friendly from overall end-to-end perspective. It has consumed the time and resources they could have otherwise devoted to innovating for next generation of the phone lines. All they needed to sacrifice is about ~1mm of phone thickness...