More common case. Your phone breaks (broken screen, swollen battery, whatever). With a physical SIM you can physically extract the SIM and insert it in anothe

More common case. Your phone breaks (broken screen, swollen battery, whatever). With a physical SIM you can physically extract the SIM and insert it in another (spare) phone (and you can even borrow one for a few minutes). To transfer an e-SIM you need to authorize the transfer on the old phone (the one that doesn't work): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32138466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32138466