Nope, works absolutely fine with cable as well. Not sure how it was in the past, but I’m not particularly missing any feature

Physical for your main contract, esim for traveling

I had a similar approach until recently: 100€/year +100€, mostly 300-400€ phones for about 4-5 years (so not that many). But my last phone was 500€ and i doubt I’ll use it for 6 years, so let’s see