I didn’t support the loss of the 3.5mm jack at the time, but at this point? Digital is obviously the future, I see no reason why I should be held hostage by the atrocious DAC included in my phone when my nice headphones can do so much better.
Bluetooth vs Wired is still a discussion worth having but defending the 3.5mm headphone jack is where you lose me. Headphone manufacturers should have hopped to USB as a standard a long time ago and they didn’t solely to milk more money out of analog audiophiles.
I feel like a big part of it is just that there’s absolutely no reason a regular consumer needs >1Gb equipment when (essentially) no home internet providers provide internet speeds that fast and no regular consumers need it.
The prosumer market only gets cheap for new equipment when you can convince regular consumers they need it and that has barely happened for 1Gb, let alone 10Gb.