dumb question of the day: is there any harm in converting my physical SIM to an eSIM?

And, the benefit is easier transfer of service from phone-to-phone, right? (I have an iPhone 12, soon to get an iPhone 16)

@tvaziri what is perhaps not obvious is that transferring to eSIM wipes/disables the original SIM card.

A friend got into trouble doing an eSIM transfer during the upgrade to a new phone - something went wrong and they had to restore from an earlier backup, but as a result they were left with neither the eSIM nor a working SIM card.

@nicklockwood @tvaziri When I upgraded from an 11 Pro to the 14 Pro, we did the eSIM transfer in-store (an AT&T Authorized Retailer) just in case there were issues with initialization.