I am skeptical about this. There are hundreds of mobile operators worldwide and many of them do not support eSIM. Admittedly Apple are no stranger to pulling st

I am skeptical about this. There are hundreds of mobile operators worldwide and many of them do not support eSIM. Admittedly Apple are no stranger to pulling stunts that upset users but removing something core to the very critical feature of the device (that is, a phone working as a phone) is surely unlikely?