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Definitely. Water resistance is almost irrelevant to normal use, as evidenced by the fact that the world has been using non-waterproof mobile phones for close to two decades and people didn't complain that much.

Also, it's not a real trade-off, as currently, everyone except Apple somehow manages to make a waterproof smartphone with a headphone jack.

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I guess you don't live in the same country as me where it _always_ rains.

Also plenty of people have have water damaged phones, from using them in bath, dropping then in the toilet or simply forgot to take them out of their pockets before plunging into the ocean. That you don't know these people or don't do it yourself, doesn't mean there are few water damaged phones.

Also please read: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prEMEA42146116

My iPhone 6's headphone jack died on me because I run a decent amount and sweat too much into it. I purchased an iphone 7+ and have been loving the waterproofing (it's great to be able to run with a great camera), except I cracked the glass on the rear camera and now am no longer water proof. So waterproofing/durability is really important to some consumers.

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