You most likely have encountered a bug, more than one even, it's just not been impactful enough for you to care or remember. They have ironed it out a lot since though, so most of the major ones have probably all gone.
I'm glad you can enjoy it though, that's great! Sounds like you have had a good time.
The video was pretty poorly structured to be honest, should have been longer with better information and they didn't post their data anywhere to read. I mean they had ~30 seconds just growing plants...
But the point stands, they weren't testing 1 to 1 on batteries (hard to do anyway). There's good reasons for why manufacturers havent just cranked it all to 200W charging.
The video isn't a sudden revelation, we already knew how batteries behave, they've been tested in labs under much more strenuous conditions too.
She gets pissed off if you take 2 seconds to plug a phone in? Are you alright brother?
The charging pad might also break and they require cables themselves, plus all the materials to make the charging pad, plus every phone has to support wireless, which is even more materials. I've never broken a USB-C cable, that's a user issue, you are either being way too aggressive with them, buying low quality ones, or both.
The charging pad itself probably requires a USB-C cable itself? It takes much more materials to make them than a cable...
https://www.ifixit.com/News/94409/wireless-charging-trading-efficiency-for-convenience
It's true, but wireless charging is still inefficient and should be avoided.
This isn't a fair like-to-like test though. They used iPhones, which use one battery and then for their 120W test they used iQOO 7, which has two batteries that charge in parallel. They aren't testing the charge rate effects on a single battery, but just how different phones behave.
While it's an okay test to see how certain models of phones hold up, it's not a test for longevity of a single battery using fast and and not-as-fast charging.
So the title, as it often is these days on YouTube, is misleading.
Is this because it's using two-cells though, or is it comparing charging one cell vs multiple.
Wireless charging sucks. It costs significantly more energy to charge the same battery to full.
I'd like to live in that idealistic world you have in your head, but we don't live in that, humans are selfish by nature, so we have capitalism. Doesn't mean we cannot control it, keep it fair. One person makes a cool piece of art? Sure, I'll pay them. You are looking far too deep into it, I'm sorry. You're going to stress yourself out.
Social media has been "banned" in that way since forever, as you said, most sites required you to be 13 or whatever and kids just lied about their age then. Kids just wont post pictures, they are still exposed to all that shit on there though. They cannot properly enforce a ban like this without ID verification, which is a fucking disaster.
You can't use a wireless charger while in bed. Unless it's magnetic, then it's also got the bending risk.
I lay in bed all the time with my phone charging, the cable bends, but I'm aware of it, it's never broken. I've had this specific one for 4 years now.
What if I want to charge in a different room? Do I buy another wireless charger? That's more cost and material again versus just a cable. Do I unplug the charger and take it with me? Cables just make way more sense. Your phone is tethered to something either way, might as well do it the more efficient and green way and plug a cable in.