This goes for a lot of consumer products these days. Things are no longer built to last and companies deliberately make products which will fail in a few years. The pace of change, or at least perceived change, is so fast that people also want to upgrade every few years, whether they need to or not.
Many times the perceived convenience is achieved through gaslighting rather than actual utility. This is very much applicable for bluetooth headphones. Consider how easy it is to connect wired headphones, you insert the pin, done. You want to put it in a different device, you plug it in that. Done. Now enter bluetooth. First you have to pair the headphones with every device you want to connect it to. Now every time you want to use it, you have to switch it on and wait for it to connect to your device. And god forbid if two paired devices are in range. Now you have to figure out which one it is connected to and switch off the bluetooth on that. To top it all, you have to remember to charge it every once in a while. Since I use my headphones occasionally, it's almost never charged when I need it.
Contrary to popular perception, bluetooth headphones actually make more sense at home because then you can connect it to the TV/Computer and be free for some movement or not have a wire running across the room to trip people. On the move, your portable device is anyway going to be on your body, so wired headphones are way more convenient during commute. This is why companies had to force adoption by removing the headphone jack. Without this trick, people would never have found it more convenient.
To top it all, there's absolutely no way for consumers to safely dispose electronics, especially in India. I still don't know what I'm supposed to do with my old non-working electronics if I don't need them anymore or they've stopped working. Nobody actually works on disposal. Western countries just dump their e-waste in India/China (now banned)/Thailand etc. Then people working in dangerous conditions melt them in unsafe ways to create more toxic waste which goes down the drain, poisoning our soil and water.
This is a menace which is being made worse by companies. And we cannot blame the consumers because for an individual, the impact of their own actions are either not visible or seems too small (drop in the ocean) to matter. But a corporate is aware of all this and still proceeds with everything.
