The closest I can get to an explanation is that someone at Apple lives in perpetual A E S T H E T I C terror of someone somewhere leaving their mouse plugged in all the time
honestly it's not THAT bad a decision. you need to plug the mouse in for like only a minute to get a month of battery life. you aren't going to be in a situation where you need to use the mouse when it's charging.
When the battery dies it just becomes e-waste — if you could charge and use it at the same time, then it could at least still be useful as a wired mouse for many more years.
People dunk on charging port, but apple mouse is dogshit ergonomically and right click wise as well, which i feel are more important dogshit characteristics (gestures are stellar though, ngl)
can you imagine if the port was visible while the mouse was being used? that would destroy the visual field. like when there's a poor person within 18 meters of my Tesla using FSD to take me to Shangy's Latest talk.
yes, i am a design technospiritual futurist and i experience the world in a heightened state of maximum consciousness and my mind is so powerful that i appreciate this decision unlike you mud eating cretins who spend less on a laptop than i do on a haircut.