So is this the new trend after 60% mechanical keyboards, ultrawide monitors or immutable distros ?

Maybe it would improve my typing speed, but I’ve been using a conventional keyboard layout for so long now, I’m fine with where I’m at. Almost thirty years of muscular memory made it “hard coded” in my hands.

Vaguely relevant xkcd

I’ve always heard that they didn’t. Just checked about it and they started to support it in 2022. But it’s still not native, it gets converted to their proprietary format.

Well there’s a key difference, Kobo allows epub. I don’t think they could legally remove it from devices already on the market?

That’s why I avoided Kindle and picked a Kobo. Sure you can remove DRMs from the books you’ve bought. But at some point they could block you from doing that. They can change anything at anytime and there’s nothing you can do about it.