yeah sure not having a wire is nice, but two generations of earbuds from my phones own manufacturer and both pairs i get regularly dogshit audio quality, and half the time one of the buds doesn’t even work or produces barely any audio. There is no way to remedy this even after resetting the buds and the bluetooth connection. and you have to shell out 3x as much money for these things. also it’s yet another device whose charge you have to keep track of
After earbuds started offering transparency mode I don’t really see a use for bone conducting headphones.
Possibly in scenarios like riding a bike where wind noise could be a problem. But audio pass through on ear buds will work for 99% of people.