Edge has started doing that too, whenever I download something from my Home Assistant instance while at home I have to rightclick and say that I really want to download it.

As long as such an option is available its not too bad.

Lots of chinese phones still have an SD card slot, although its usually in the same location as the second SIM card, so you have to choose.

My phone is like this and I use the dual SIM feature, as the internal memory is 256gb anyway.

That is true, until it isnt anymore. At one point Google will become so shitty and other search engines much better, that everyone will start to switch over, but at that point its too late for Google to do anything about it.

But thats somehow beyond the grasp of every shareholder ever (or they plan on selling the stock in a few years anyway).

Not necessarily, it does mean that its just a rebrand of some noname chinese stuff.

I wouldnt expect it to be very high quality, but some of them are good enough.