Oh, and what technological challenges, pray tell, caused the jack to be removed?
Waterproofing? As if. Spare us the bulldust.
Space? Oh, spare me, it takes up minimal space. Especially compared to the massive weight and size of the magsafe charger magnets.
It needs a DAC? FFS, the iPhone always has had, and still does have, a DAC. It drives the freaking external speakers of the phone.
Any other of the usual parade of ridiculous moronic arguments I've missed?
No mate, removing the jack was 100% about profits, and 0% about anything else. Removing it pushed people into buying the massively overpriced and profitable AirPods. A highly successful ploy. And for icing on the cake, they convinced fanbois to cheer on this reduction in phone usefulness.