My phone doesn’t have a headphone jack. Despite this, I used a pair of shitty wired IEMs every day when I walk my dog. I don’t really think bluetooth is all that bad, it works for me most of the time, except on my oldass car which I bought one of those bluetooth to radio short throw transmitters that plugs in the ciggy lighter and it gets really staticky when it rains, but my car’s speaker system wasn’t doing wonders anyways so I don’t think it matters that much.
No, I don’t have a problem with bluetooth, but I still think it’s probably worse for most every application I could think of, compared to an aux jack. The amount of time I save by having my phone automatically connect to my car compared to plugging in my phone is basically nothing. Takes about 3 seconds for my phone to connect, takes about 3 seconds for my phone to get plugged in. Same with regular headphones. About the only thing I can maybe think of is a wireless speaker, but I tend not to use those very often and you could probably do that over wifi in most applications. That, and the cost of bluetooth is just always gonna be higher than an aux jack, or a wire. Shut up about DACs, too, I don’t care. A cost of like 4 bucks for a usb-c to aux cable is going to perform about the same as your pretentious 500 dollar usb-c to usb to usb powered DAC to aux port chain you have going on because of “noise”. That’s insane. It’s insane to carry that shit around in your pocket all day.
Headphones, you’re paying more for worse quality, basically every time, and this will hold true for every device. Plus there’s always the fuggin batteries and the little stupid case, and I’m not paying more for a new pair of shittier headphones when in 3 years my bluetooth headphones can’t hold a charge because the manufacturer didn’t program anything for a trickle charge to preserve battery life.
I dunno, this makes me mad, phones not being 16:9 makes me mad, phones not fitting in my dainty little hands makes me mad.