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Wired headphones are the answer. Sound better, no batteries, no charging - ever -, excellent cross-device compatibility and a ton of other advantages I've written about elsewhere.
If only companies wouldn't remove the jack left, right and centre for mostly lousy excuses.
This is basically my opinion: https://www.soundguys.com/was-ditching-the-headphone-jack-a-good-idea-13825/
The wire was always a point of failure that broke and needed me to buy new headphones though.
The annoying thing is that there was a solution for this. They sold earbuds with anti-knotting wires a few years ago. I bought Sennheiser earbuds with anti-knotting wires, used them day in, day out, on the road in my pockets and at home at my desktop and they lasted for two and a half years. Given how much I used them, that's a long time. I bought the same model again and they too lasted very long. Now they suddenly did away with the perfect solution and want to do everything wireless as if we can spare the lithium. It's ridiculous.
But now instead you just have no options when the batteries die, which in my experience has never broken 2 years.
Yes, the cheap ones have that problem. Decent quality makes all the difference. I have had mine for years with no problems.
The Bluetooth ones with a detachable cable are the best of both worlds tbh
Cheap is fine. I don't use wired headphones as much, but I'd rather they break than whatever they're connected to. I'd have a bunch of devices with ruined ports if my headphones had been stronger. Best option would be if they just disconnected from the port, but that's less likely if the cable is orthogonal to the jack when I'm about to break it.
Back in the day, I thought Apple revolutionized with magnetic charging cables, but I never really saw that get widespread mass usage.
They got rid of 3.5mm jacks because for 95% of the customer base they were as useful as bellybuttons, they collected lint. If you want to use a jack, get a dedicated audio device and pick whatever phone you want.