Me too... it also makes me a little nervous, though I'm sure there are work-arounds for the problems I'm imagining... removable batteries and SD cards just seem pretty essential on rooted devices. Obviously this is not the case, but all the same, I wish HTC hadn't locked down the One series.
I would guess the workaround for no removable batteries would be a hard reset button (one not tied to software). Again, if the "sdcard" is a different chip in their devices there should be no issues.
Even so, I would definitely prefer having physical access...