They're not wrong, you see similar patterns all the time. It's a step in a good direction but the manufacturers should be required to provide those batteries fo

They're not wrong, you see similar patterns all the time. It's a step in a good direction but the manufacturers should be required to provide those batteries for sufficient time too or make them easily compatible with third party ones. Ideally there would be standardized formats for every brand to limit inflation of parts number. (that manufacturers love to do, making one serial incompatible with another moving unnecessary bits as a middle finger to repairers) Being removable does not resolve everything. For example, it's very common for laptop removables, especially from a certain ex-IBM division company, to have a self-destructive fuse in case the voltage drops as you replace the cells (making it all the more difficult and unsafe) because there's no original ones sold anywhere, and your alternatives are shady housefires from China that have the lowest quality ones in them no matter how much you pay, and it's very annoying.