Yes, I have spent hours researching esim vs physical sims.
My approach to researching many given subjects is I hyper focus and look at many articles, hear opinions and try to see elephants in the room.
It’s time consuming, but how I function I need a lot of data to jumble in my head to come to a decision or a best up to date conclusion. The problem I find most often is a lot of vague stuff with nuggets of truth that is scattered all over the internet with no distinction of a yes or no answer. Doesn’t mean I am always right, but I need a certain level of confidence to make a personal decision on moving forward with a given process. Also, I will try to mind how I talk and let people know this is just my thoughts and not a statement of fact.
I had the funds to get a Pixel 10 and almost got it. But after my personal research and forming my own opinion, no way. I went for an older pixel till I can learn more.
This is just my opinion, views and thoughts not statements of facts. Regardless of how I word the following.
My findings:
The Elephant in the room: An esim is held in servers on a cloud. Then there’s the more intimate integration into the hardware. Both of which in my opinion is a future vulnerability. No one can tell me those cloud servers can’t be hacked or leak data.
My other off shoot findings and thoughts:
Social engineering in my opinion is at play here. It seems we’re being lulled into a new system with promises of convenience and security compared to those dirty, outdated, carbon foot printing hope it doesn’t get stolen plastic sim cards.
On top of that, manufacturers seem intent on getting rid of sim card trays for that extra little kick in the rear to herd the masses into this new setup.
Some of spoke to at my carrier were beating their chest about how much experience they have in the industry. No, they are merely repeating the party line not even acknowledging my concerns. They literally shut down when I talk about the elephant in the room.
It’s like the movie Idiocrisy. “But it has electrolytes!” Translation - “But it’s more secure!” They completely over looked what was talking about.
So based on my maybe non factual opinion and yes, the good ole hunches, I am going to do my best to stay away from esim technology.
For the record, I understand physical sims have their flaws, I am merely choosing what is in my opinion the lesser of 2 evils and would at least like a choice to use either or instead of being shoved down my phone.
P.S. I noticed I sent this as a response. This is not to flame any individual on the forum. I just talking “In general”. 
