I genuinely don't get complaints about lack of magsafe; the magnets are handy, sure, but these can easily be added with a case - as I do on my Pixel.
Not putting your phone in a case is, to me, like not wearing a seatbelt - you want to seem cool by showing off what phone you have...
I'm sure Apple has evidence to show the target demographic for this phone are exceeding likely to use one so are shifting that cost outside of the BOM.
The argument made in the article of thinking they wanted to align all iPhones after the section acknowledging the screen isn't kind of renders it moot?
