It does suck. I've remedied it by using bluetooth earphones & also bringing an adapter (which is pretty small) in my wallet, along with a microusb-to-lightning adapter. And now I'm pretty happy with my phone.
All of this is extra effort to fix broken usability. Not much but frequent and unavoidable.
All this subsidizes apple's decision to not offer an effortless solution for very common use cases.
Bringing a dongle is an effort. Replacing existing headphones is an effort. Paying extra ateention to which Apple-made earbuds I bring is an effort. Buying bt headphones and charging them is an effort.
What am I buying with the extra efforts I need to invest in activities which required no such efforts before?
The sound is not better. I am not going to swim with my phone.
My only conclusion is that I do this for Apple, not for me.
