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Personally, I am more concerned about the not-easy-to-repair status of more expensive and sophisticated devices than eReaders.
Many laptop computers these days: CPU - soldered in, Memory - soldered in, SSD - soldered in. Tablets: Expandable storage via microSD card - a thing of the past, Audio jack - nope, bluetooth only now.
The not-user-replaceable battery in an eReader is only a secondary concern - because the entire eReader itself will probably go into "unsupported" status before its battery gives out.
I still like and prefer eReaders for reading books. But I see their days as numbered. They are harder for force updates to, to more tightly lock them into walled gardens for manufacturer control and profit. Due to less powerful and harder to remotely configure hardware resources. Amazon is making big moves in this area as of late - to knock down the number of these devices that are still functional. My personal guess is that their next big move will be to make the devices functionally unusable across the board.
An EU battery serviceability mandate is useless floundering IMHO. They'll probably just stop selling devices in the European market as a result. Which was their eventual plan anyway, this just allows them to get there faster using the new mandate as cover.
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