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The price of easy repairability is a lack of water resistance. This phone is only IP54 water resistant - basically it can only survive a little rain. If it falls into the toilet or a sink full of water, it's toast.

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While its nice to have water resistance in 15+ years of mobile use I've never felt a need to use one in a pool, nor did I manage to drop it in a toilet or similar. I also doubt that many android or apple flagships would really survive a drop in the pool, no matter how certified.

Recent iPhone vintages are in fact as waterproof as claimed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv1kofMtpFs

Maybe it hasn't happened to you yet, but people accidentally drop their phones in water all the time. It's just a Google search away, if you care to look.

They do survive a drop in a pool. iOS will also warn you there's moisture inside the charging port and will refuse to charge until completely dry.

This phone has IP54. The previous had nothing. I like to think they are working on it. Watch makers have been making serviceable waterproof devices for decades. Only reason we don't have serviceable waterproof phones is because manufacturers prefer to cut corners and shave an extra milimiter of phone height than care about users.

I think the market has spoken that it cares more about waterproofing and low profile design than end-user serviceability.

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