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This is so over blown, but expected for something related to Apple.

Batteries wear out and need to be replaced after a year or two. Apple does something to make the phones last longer, and people frame it as a negative.

I’ve replaced a handful of batteries in iPhons and it is quite easy for anyone who knows how to use a screw driver and watch a YouTube video. Or just pay some small business to replace it.

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The problem is that there is no way for a user to know that they can spend 79$ to fix the problem. Most will asume that is has become slow and think the only solution is spending +700$ on a new one.

The fact that this was never communicated to users is what's the big issue here.

Users may not know that their battery performance is degraded. And even if they knew, how would you expect the average user to correlate bad battery health with low system performance?

Apple should have notified users of battery health issues (they do so on MacBooks, for example) and the impact on system performance.

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