My argument is not that water resistance is not required but that it has always been present. Older phones were already water resistant. You just couldn't chuc

My argument is not that water resistance is not required but that it has always been present. Older phones were already water resistant. You just couldn't chuck them in a pond. It's a total non issue. If our Game Boys collectively survived our childhoods then a phone with far fewer ingress points is going to be fine. You can't even use it in the rain because capacative touchscreens. Waterproof phones are marketing.