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Where you at dawg? The whole city is behind us!
Gonna spend the rest of my response over the obvious triple question mark. (And I have a Motorola BT headset from 2006 that still works, AirPods are not that, for the record. They were always eWaste.)
Had a first gen pair that randomly die in sequence during meetings, they aged to uselessness in under 2 years. No way to replace the battery, obviously. Audio behaves weird sometimes. Unreliable - I also meant a meta-reason as to why people don't use them in airports pre-flight. The battery life is unreliable if you forgot you used them earlier and didn't recharge, or rather, short. So you aren't looking at all-day wear and listen, you have a finite amount of time. I've also on a few occasions almost dropped the tiny buggers on flights when taking them out to hear flight attendants, which makes me avoid wearing them on some flights so I don't lose them forever. Anker actually makes a pair of around-ear projection headphones that work all day, the battery is obviously bigger, and won't bother mentioning the model because not trying to shill them.
Unrelated general stuff: AirPods were also an homage as their existence made every other company produce tiny firecracker ear devices. Samsung has a pair that one earphone just stops working as loud as the other, who knows if it was ESD or ear wax or fate. Not anything to do with unreliability mentioned above, obviously, that's a Samsung thing.
Probably would be more usable if they were as cheap as they cost to make that a person could just own two or three pairs and just swap them from the charge case, but that would also accelerate eWaste.