Is Samsung Deliberately Slowing Down the S22 Ultra?

I've noticed a significant decline in battery performance on my S22 Ultra after the November and December updates. Before, I used to get around 12-13% battery consumption per hour of screen-on time, but now it's hitting 15-16%.

It feels like Samsung is either:

  1. Pushing us to upgrade by making older devices perform worse.

  2. Creating artificial hype for One UI 7 by degrading performance now, only to “magically” improve it later.

Anyone else experiencing the same issue? Could this be intentional throttling? Let’s discuss.