[yreg]

Can you ELI5 how does this negatively affect the consumer and why should the consumer prefer the 'bad looking' choke option?

[topspin]

Ferrite chokes are large and heavy. They're also not free. So the product costs more, weighs more and gets bigger.

[yreg]

Sounds like I'm with Steve on this one.

[topspin]

Yeah. Who needs a usable RF spectrum when iphone has interwebs?

[JoeAltmaier]

Not only does the device feed high-frequency signals into your power wiring, it can get noise from it like motors turning on or off and spiking the voltage.

It's only a problem if it's a problem. If they'd done proper filtering inside the device maybe it's ok.