I think there are roughly three types of legislation: legislation that acts on existing things (and thus is by definition "late"), legislation that anticipates things (and thus "restricts the market") and legislation that tries to cause something to exist (and thus fails if it anticipates improvements that don't materialize).

I would argue banning plastic single-use food containers is a bit of category one and a bit of category three. Of course the replacements are terrible, if the replacements were great then people would already prefer them and we wouldn't need the law. But banning single-use containers creates demand for better alternatives, which incentivizes innovation and the creation of actually good alternatives.

Batteries are very much an old thing. We solved it for walkmans. Non-replaceable batteries are a somewhat new thing that is in need of some legislation to close the gaps.