I think the highest priority was the keyboard, am I remembering correctly? By TPU, I meant that the thickness of the case could cause an issue with the wireless charging feature not making proper contact or not working properly. That is why I wanted to ask, in a way, whether the case situation was considered or not.
I think your example is very exaggerated, because you are kind of dismissing wireless charging. However, that technology offers these possibilities right now. Its practical usefulness may be around 50% today, but when we consider the possibility of its development in the future, it could rise to 80%.
For example, if data transfer over wireless charging had been successful, wouldn’t it have been an important step toward the dream of water resistance and a portless design? This was already being considered, wasn’t it?
Wireless charging is not what makes a phone look cool. Could the category you are trying to describe maybe be this: People do not really care much about the features of phones. Today’s phones already exist as status symbols. Maybe that is why you call it “cool,” I don’t know.