If you own an Apple iPhone 12 or later, then you can take advantage of all of the benefits of MagSafe for wireless charging and power transfer. This means you can charge your iPhone wirelessly, but with the power of MagSafe magnets to securely keep your iPhone in place when charging

Regardless of Apple's reasoning for this decision, the solution seemed simple: Just get a MagSafe case. However, typically for Apple, the company went all the way with omitting MagSafe on the iPhone 16e, because even the official cases for the device do not support it.