And counterproductive, IMO, because it discourages buyers from looking for them and contributes to erosion in their market share. Here’s a post from last month detailing traditional battery availability in RIC aids:
Since then there was a post in another thread saying that Starkey and/or Signia, I forget exactly which, had released traditional battery versions of their models cited in the linked thread. And as we know, Phonak is said to be readying a traditional battery version of Lumity RIC.