I don't miss it as well, though that's because I refuse to buy anything that doesn't expose analog out. The 3.5 jack is certainly not the best engineered piece

I don't miss it as well, though that's because I refuse to buy anything that doesn't expose analog out. The 3.5 jack is certainly not the best engineered piece of hardware and is prone to failure, but that should be rather a motivation to produce a better one than an excuse to remove it.