[namibj]

If anything, I expect this to use lower power. However, it won't work with some SD cards that one could possibly want to use via an eMMC breakout adapter. That's my suspicion for why they had this in a late board revision in the first place.

[oynqr]

There is a separate microsd slot on the pinephone, why one would want to use an adapter from the semi-proprietary emmc connector to microsd is beyond me.