Iām not blaming anyone, not even Fairphone
And I agree with @NicoM.
I just wanted to point out that I always disliked this āfeatureā. The only smartphone I own so far is an FP1. I played around with other phones to help friends and I always disliked it. There is no easy way to find problems fast without usb especially if the phone crashes hard or the display goes off. Explaining this to people how to get there always takes a long time (including how to download adb and use ā¦). Itās confusing. The way to activate the menu is a nice joke, but confusing.
Making this an āeliteā/underground feature to scare people off sounds wrong to me. But as I also tried to point out that this is not a big thing for me, just annoying.
Backup and debugging (using on-board tools) does not work very well on Android for normal users.