It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:
The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.
One step at a time, easy to get people behind something like batteries, as it’s a common point of failure on phones. Then we go after their shitty software practices.