Sorry @flashb1024 , I guess the engineer in me missed your point. I wasn’t defending Oticon at all. I was merely explaining the logic of why I think Oticon took away the Mute from the rechargeable. That by no means implies that I think it’s OK for Oticon to do that (not figure out a way to retain Mute on the button).
I actually wish Oticon has done the following in the rechargeable More: Keep the Mute on the very long press (so that it’s consistent with all the other Oticon models). Then add a Switch Off option via a very very (2 very) long press combined with an OFF chime so people would know that it’s now OFF.