And that's a major flaw of eSIM. Providers shouldn't even have been given that kind of discrimination capability.
With a physical SIM, I can pry my card out of one phone and put it into another, and expect it to work. With eSIM, every single eSIM has to be carrier approved and GSMA approved, and every single transfer from one eSIM to another has to be carrier approved too.
That's bad enough, but my biggest beef isn't even the need for carrier approval per se, but the fact that even when the carrier would intend to approve it, it still requires (a) an additional hurdle, (b) often a separate internet connection, and (c) an unbounded amount of wasted time to make it happen.
SoftSIM is straight up a better deal. But it's B2B only for now.
> With a physical SIM, I can pry my card out of one phone and put it into another, and expect it to work
Is anything preventing the provider from denying a SIM swap based on IMEI?