Fair enough in some respects, but the facts you're looking for are really about product quality ratings, which gets into a quagmire. My point isn't that decent

Fair enough in some respects, but the facts you're looking for are really about product quality ratings, which gets into a quagmire. My point isn't that decent quality audio with BT isn't possible, it's that I don't think BT standards are at the same point as 3.5mm. As you yourself said, if you're saying that BT is fine "as long as you're making sure you're using the highest quality standard possible" then there's a problem. It sounds like you've run into some of the same issues ("choosing to communicate over the hands-free profile"); I think my broader point is that with BT, it seems like there's a lot of those sorts of things. Something like car audio or home stereo, with a nice, well-configured set up, is fine, but for a lot of things it doesn't have the same plug and play kind of simplicity of 3.5 mm. Maybe we agree more than we disagree, although come to different opinions about jacks in phones. To me, BT is a promising thing that's not quite foolproof enough to compare to 3.5mm. In general I feel like mobile device design has this tail-wagging-the-dog problem the last few years.