Ehhhh there's a middle ground solution that will almost certainly be lost on all the Eurocrats, largely going by the previous prescriptive attempts with micro-u

Ehhhh there's a middle ground solution that will almost certainly be lost on all the Eurocrats, largely going by the previous prescriptive attempts with micro-usb for all phones etc: Instead of mandating user-replacable whatever parts, go with right-to-repair type of legislature, where the manufacturer cannot try to lock you out from being able to replace what you need. We've already seen Lexmark and Apple lead the way with this BS in the consumer device space (crypto-pairing the parts and not letting anyone have the private keys), so right to repair would be of far more benefit that mandating that the next phone should have functionally have the form factor of 2000s Palm pilot.