That's hardly enshitification, the USB camera monitor feature is NOT USB video output capability, which remains as a hardware feature on all Xperia phones, it is a proprietary software feature for receiving video output from Sony's Alpha Cameras into the phone via standard USB-C port, and displaying the camera's viewfinder feed on the phone. This is exactly the same as what you can do with for example Spacedeck to use your phone or any other Android device as an external monitor for PC, but with Sony's own proprietary implementation. And Sony's implementation is exclusive to their professional Alpha series cameras, you could never use your phone as an external monitor of any other device with that feature, which would always require another software to encode the video feed to transmit theough the standard USB-C interface anyway. So it's been an extremely niche proprietary feature only used by a very small group of people who happen to be professional photographers, doing certain specific types of photography, and happen to be using certain Sony Alpha cameras instead of professional cameras from other vendors. I agree it's a ridiculous and beyond stupid decision from Sony but I do also think it's a bit of a stretch to call that enshitification, especially compares to the kind of practices from many other much bigger OEMs that have unfortunately become almost ubiquitous these days throughout an entire industry.

While at the same time, Sony Xperia phones remains some of the very few high end Android phones these days that still have BOTH 3.5mm headphones jack and SD card support, together with an open device policy where you're always free to unlock bootloader and root without artificially losing major core OS features.

By 2025 Q2 Samsung smartphones have 19.7% global market share, how cute.

Samsung has over half of all android phones in the US.

Oh don't worry it is not even close to being the biggest problem people in the US are having lol

Yeah... The benefit to increased security there is marginal at best. Google wallet doesn't play nice on rooted devices, and having a rooted device that allows me to tell Google to fuck right off is far more worth it than slightly more convenience.

Yes I agree that in terms of a financial service, tokenized transaction system indeed architecturally guarentees greater safety, but a bigger concern is the provider of this service.

Did you not hear about what happened recently when a certain major payment processor realized they can arbitrarily enforce what they think other people should and should not be able to buy, by withholding the availability of such service? Well functionally the exact same thing is happening to you, Google doesn't want you to be able to control your own devices because Google is an advertising company who also profits from selling your data, annnnd Google also happens to be the commerical supplier of Android with their commerical GMS certification program which includes Play Integrity check and all that, so they can arbitrarily decide that if you attempt to have more control over your own device, you don't get to use Google Wallet anymore.

Are you happy to submit to this mafia practice from Google? I wouldn't lol. Not saying I have a solution but then again I don't think any single individual could possibly have a solution to the disaster that is the US capitalism.

Not using it but I heard curve does it too over graphene OS. (And no, it's not a bank nor FOSS) But if a tokenised wallet app is all that keeps you from Moving forward ..)