While I usually don’t condone proprietary software or hardware, I have to give a thumbs up to the One UI/Samsung devs.
I was “playing around” with my Samsung S23 - which by the way I have debloated to the point of it feeling snappier than all the bleeding edge iPhones - I “accidentally” messed up my recovery partition. Here comes the thumbs up part.
Instead of falling into a bootloop or becoming bricked in any way, some sort of failsafe mechanism kicked in, sending the user (me) to the download mode. So instead of leaving me with a brick containing all my music, contacts, banking stuff and, well, my everyday life, it allowed me to reflash a working recovery partition, albeit not the official one but TWRP since I - in my panicked state - could not find an image of just the Samsung recovery (I would have had to reflash all of Android…).
WELL DONE programming it so that it takes you to download mode! :D
PS: If you’re going to experiment, don’t do it on your daily driver. Don’t be like me.
Once in a while you encounter software that, while proprietary, proves that even if you’re doing closed source software, you don’t have to be an asshole about it.
I don’t remember which hardware I was mucking about with, but when trying to do something with the firmware that I wasn’t supposed to do, I was given a warning, a recommendation to back up everything, and a simple pointer on what to do if whatever insanity I was doing didn’t work.