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.
Throwing some bones while preserving the proprietary nature of the USB standard, patent and IP laws, all kinds of certification required to produce stuff, etc.
They are just making the current state of things convenient, very slowly. Not addressing the root of the problem.
That’s fair. Standardize everything. For the moment, it’s the best of what we got. These changes happen over slowly, over decades. I’m all for addressing root causes and not symptoms.