You can't get a new eSim without working network and working carrier provisioning. I recently observed a friend try to get a new eSim for a new phone... no wifi

You can't get a new eSim without working network and working carrier provisioning. I recently observed a friend try to get a new eSim for a new phone... no wifi, so he hotspotted from the old phone... carrier kicked the old phone before the new sim was downloaded, so he was stuck until he got somewhere with wifi he could use. Physical sim would have been easy peasy.