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.
The thing with apple is that at this point they don’t have customers, they have followers. People for whom this will be a deal breaker jumped the ship long ago, now the company can do whatever it wants and people will still buying the product, not because of whatever product does, but because they are people who buy Apple. The bad thing is that other companies will copy everything they do because they don’t really understand the dynamics.