Hm this doesn't seem to be panning out in practice. Loads of devices have grown "optimize charging" style features in the recent-ish past, and those features ar

Hm this doesn't seem to be panning out in practice. Loads of devices have grown "optimize charging" style features in the recent-ish past, and those features are explicitly there to extend battery longevity (at the expense of consumer convenience even!). Clearly, the market forces are more complex than "short battery lifetime = more frequent device upgrades = profit" (although that effect is certainly *a part of& the equation).