There seems to be a lot of FUD here, but I'll just chime in with my personal anecdote: I've been using eSIM functionality for a couple years with 0 issues whats

There seems to be a lot of FUD here, but I'll just chime in with my personal anecdote: I've been using eSIM functionality for a couple years with 0 issues whatsoever. The Google Fi workflow is basically just to log in and it's automatically set up. The Mint Mobile workflow is just 'get a barcode in your email and scan it from your phone'. I assume others are similar. The only use case I can think of where any of that breaks down is where you're in a situation where you broke your phone AND you don't have internet access. But as far as I'm concerned, a visit to your neighbor or local library is enough to fix that.