Pegajace

If those things don’t matter, why’d you list them as complaints?

Frankly, I don’t buy this particular issue as “choice being taken away from us,” I see it as obsolete technology falling by the wayside. As far as I’m concerned the freedom from having your head physically tethered to some other device outweighs any of the concerns anyone’s brought up, so why would I be upset about losing the “choice” to use an objectively worse option?

Yes, having to charge them is mildly annoying, but nowhere near as annoying as having a cable hanging off your head tethered to your desk or pocket the entire time you’re using them. I would never go back to wires.

FWIW I’ve exclusively used wireless buds and over-ears for years now and none of those things has ever been an issue for me.

For charging, I take five seconds at the end of the day to check the charge and plug them in overnight if necessary. I’ve never once had to think about wireless protocols. I’ve had to re-pair them a literal handful of times. I’ve never had to use a dedicated app.

Are there trade-offs? Yes, absolutely. But for me, none of them come close to rivalling the massive inconvenience of having your head physically tethered to another device. Being freed from the cord outweighs every other consideration by an order of magnitude.