Today I caught my headphone cord on something and they got unplugged. This is something I maybe do once a week. It got me thinking again about how this and cords tangling1 were the major inconveniences that helped convince people we had to replace them with wireless versions. And they're just not real problems. We've forced everyone who isn't actively working to avoid it2 to use a more complicated technology that is more expensive, more error prone, and produces a bunch of extra waste for the benefit of not having to have a few feet of wire. It's bullshit and I hate it.
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not a problem I have on the cheap sony headphones I've used for about 2 decades but I get that it is easier to happen with thinner paired earphone cables (esp. when you throw them in a bag)
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Also, using a wire is way more work now. I have to buy a fucking adapter to use the same headphones that I have to plug and unplug as I switch between my phone and computer. The adaptor tends to break before my cheap headphones do, doesn't work properly in cold temperatures, and actively functions worse. I got used to pausing my music to talk to someone without needing to pull out my phone by just unplugging the headphones and then plugging them back in. Because there's some sort of lag with the extra conversion, if you do it too quickly, it doesn't actually pause your audio any more