I hereby bestow your woke card. I am a historian (just kidding) so I can assure you, not hurling your children across the room & treating them as more than property is quite woke. In 20 years, hopefully we will all be considered to be on par with the guy who invented Wheaties in wokeness (no, no, very bad)
It's a toggle that limits the battery to 80%. So it wouldn't work with the battery removed like some laptops as OP is looking for. Not aware of any like that.
Unfortunately the only way to escape this and retain a boot locked phone is GrapheneOS now. Used Pixels are cheap as fuck though.