This review was linked in another thread on the forums, and summarizes the issue with the RTC battery well, and it gave me an idea.
Other than @anon81945988’s letter to Framework, to get them to actually give this issue the attention, and response it deserves, anyone who is having issues like this should vocalize on other platforms as well.
If they don’t want to give this the transparency we want (as they are still not answering many questions on this thread), then we need to make this a bigger issue for them to consider.
Examples for this would be like tweeting your grievances to Framework’s twitter account: https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter
Or replying to their response on reddit in this post about the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/vdo3i6/buyer_beware_rtcbattery_issues_on_11_and_12_gen/