I have gone through three apple ones in the last year. They work great until they don’t. But they have been the best, along with the google brand one I had with my pixel 3 before that. I will admit that I have a very fast paced job and it is more wear and tear than a normal person would probably put on one. But when I had a jack on my phone I never went through earbuds as quickly as I have gone through dongles and I always bought relatively cheap earbuds.

Fuck dongles though which you’re stuck having to use with almost any phone these days. I’ve bought cheap ones in a pack and neither lasted more than two days, not to mention the awful sound quality. And the “good” ones barely last more than six months if you’re lucky. If headphone jacks weren’t a thing of the past I’d tend to agree with you.