I use to own expensive (~250+€) bluetooth earbuds, with ANC and all that jazz. I broke them by trying to clean them one time (my ears are very "waxy" and every earbuds always ends up coating in nastiness from my ears very quickly, so i need to clean them regularly). So I went back to the cheap wired (but still USB-c) earbuds I got. I do resonate a lot with this article. Wired earbuds just works. With wireless earbuds I cannot count how many time I had issue with bluetooth. The microphone on every wireless earbuds is awful because you cannot put it right to your mouth like you can with wired ones. You have a limited battery time. Wireless earbuds are bulkier so they get out of your ears easier, ...

The only thing I miss is the ANC, which was surprisingly working well on trains and planes.

And yeah, I which I still had a jack on my phone. My best wired earbuds use jack, so I have to carry this annoying dongle, usb-c is also flimsier, and I am way more worried about breaking it, since I also need it to charge my phone and transfer files.