I also prefer the battery meter to show percentage simply to reduce range anxiety. Even if the mileage estimate was accurate, I’d rather not constantly be calculating how many miles I think I might need to drive before the next charge.

If you tap the miles indicator, it changes to percent.

>The fact that they threw that away is a little silly.

You state this as a fact, but it's completely incorrect. It has been an option since at least 2018 to change the indicator to percentage.