Apple will be vindicated though. Remember when they got rid of the 3.5 inch floppy disk drive on their green Macintosh computers in the 90s and everyone went ape-crap?
I don’t buy the comparison of removing the 3.5mm jack to removing floppy drives or the eventual removal of CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives.
There has been no widespread disruption of the audio jack standard.
By the time the floppy drive was taken out of initial iMacs ZIP drives were 100x the size of floppies, CD/DVD burners were pretty damn common and a single MP3 was bigger than an entire floppy.
It was obsolete long before it was removed from hardware.
I remember when they did that, Imation sold a USB floppy drive just for Mac users
At the time, USB sticks either did not exist or really really expensive, like $200 for 16MB (you read that right, MB)
So floppies were still in use. (still in use today in certain circumstances if you are involved in enterprise or government computing)
It took the general computing world about another 5-7 years to wane themselves off of 3.5” floppy disks. Apple wasn’t vindicated, the technology to replace floppy disks just needed to mature and become affordable, Apple had nothing to do with that.