They have taken off. People have said with their wallets that they don’t care about the issues that BT has because the past decade tech has trained people they have to deal with tech that works just so so.
Maybe bt just performs better for most people than your experience? I have cheap $50 Bluetooth headphones from Amazon and they almost never drop signal. Certainly less than once per listening session (a twenty minute train commute). I know it's happened but it's rare enough that I can't think of any particular circumstance.
My biggest complaint with BT is it sometimes connects to the wrong device so I have to do a little song and dance to connect it. Wires don’t have this issue.
My second biggest complaint was audio lag but that’s less of an issue now. Of course wires never had this issue.
