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You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes
(gizmodo.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
That doesn’t change that disabling cellular makes a difference, so I don’t see your point. Just because something’s not perfect, doesn’t mean it can’t make a difference.
It just makes such a tiny, insignificant difference that it really doesn't matter one way or the other.