But it has USB-C, so you can use USB-C headphones or one of the many dongle adapters.
A headphone jack is pennies. I don’t want to buy, possibly charge and generally carry around something else when this is a solved problem that Apple has broken.
I also like being able to charge my device AND listen to it at the same time.
Very frequently, I use my wired headphones and charge the device at the same time.
I'm glad I can do that without some dodgy external dongle.
"our devices are so thin and light..."
no shit, half of the device is outside, you just have to carry this bag of dongles with you