I've also had APN issues with physical SIMs, they are definitely not perfect. But I have never had an unusable "bricked" physical SIM. My eSIMs gripes are from being unable to use the eSIM at all. It's essentially a brick at that point.
Calling it "eSIM" is BS marketing. Every time I've used them it's been painful. I don't know the details but it absolutely is not "SIM technology". "eSIM" is something completely different.
A regular SIM: you just pop a SIM card into your phone and it just God damn works.
But eSIMs? I've used eSIMs from five carriers in three different countries and every time there is some issue:
* "Oh you need our god awful app to install an eSIM" (of course I couldn't easily download it because Google play geo hides apps).
* "If your phone is stolen overseas you can simply use this QR barcode again to register an eSIM to a new phone" (I couldn't).
* "Works with all phones". (It didn't because phone manufacturers have to bake Telco specific data into your phones firmware. Not supported? You're shit out of luck).
I could go on..
The fact that there are now privacy and security issues is not surprisingly at all. This isn't teetching issues. The drafters of the eSIM standard should be publicly flogged.
Bit late to the thread, but for those interested I found this interview with two scientists trying to reproduce LK99 insightful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFnA8gwnLms
Lots of interesting nitty gritty details. Also raises an interesting point about how lot of labs trying to reproduce LK99 are probably not doing it correctly.
"ERCOT said it is reviewing the test failures and drawing up plans to protect the grid from disruptions."
Why are they even allowed to connect? / Why are they not kicked off? / Why aren't they being forced to add their own grid inertia?