While the cost issue is still there, AirPods and the ever increasing competing products really solve this entire issue for me, and then some. I felt they were

While the cost issue is still there, AirPods and the ever increasing competing products really solve this entire issue for me, and then some. I felt they were overpriced but bought them anyways as a birthday gift to myself. Now that I have them though, I would probably even pay twice as much if that was the only way to have them. They're the single best 'gadget' I've bought in a very long time and even now, six months in, I regularly have little 'moments' where I realize having bluetooth headphones saved me some (minor) inconvenience. Furthermore, there are pretty decent bluetooth headphones even at forty bucks these days. I'm pretty sure most of us will end up with cordless headphones in the near future. I don't think it was smart of Apple to go jack-less before cordless was the norm, but then they often do these types of things (non-removable battery/storage, walled-garden iDevices, etc.).