[oger]

Sorry - but 3.5 mm / 1/8“ jacks / plugs are crap. They are prone to kinds of contact issues / noise, are not sturdy enough to withstand lateral forces like their 6.3 mm / 1/4“ siblings. Their pull out force is either non existent or plug destroying. Unless they are of the rare threaded type I try to avoid them (just as barrel jacks). Better get a (mini-)XLR or Lemo connector…

[Yizahi]

There is no space to put big acoustic ports in the small gadgets, so they are replaced with usb-c instead. And I've had infinitely less number of problematic 3.5" ports than for example usb type-c ports across all gadgets I've ever owned. I.e. zero problematic 3.5" and so far two crapped out usb-c ports (I mean mechanically crapped, so they do function, but cables need to be shuffled around until contact is made and they are no longer held in place in the port).

[olyjohn]

Nobody has headphones with those connectors. Sounds like Bluetooth is for you.

[toast0]

I've got headphones with 1/4" connectors. I like the sets where the cord is detachable, each headphone has a jack, one is 1/4" one is 1/8", and the included cord has 1/4" on one end and 1/8" on the other. Then you can plug into whatever.

I'm not cool enough to have XLR on any of my devices.

[CamperBob2]

Genuine Lemo connectors are about $40.

XLR connectors are huge.

But yeah, you're not wrong, just tilting at windmills. I look forward to the demise of barrel jacks in particular, but USB is what will replace them.