Not so different. The point is that most people no longer print to their printers over a dedicated parallel cable. I haven't done so in many, many years. The printing goes over wireless to my printers. I'm glad I no longer have to deal with dedicated parallel cables to my printer. You call it "technology of inconvenience". Wrong. It is certainly convenient to do away with wires for mobility. And it isn't "quite", it's "quit being obtuse", which isn't the case.
Yes, wireless is nice. But realize, this move now forces you to, in many instances (such as low battery or situations where you CANNOT use Bluetooth like on flights within Asia) to have MORE connectors and dongles than before.
Instead of just a USB cable (for charging) and a pair of headphones, you now have to have a Lightning-to-USB cable, a hub that has at least two ports (one for charging, one for the phone) and one Lightning port (for the headphone), a headphone, and that USB cable.
So you get to carry extra things and string more spagetti around. All because what you could already do - wireless audio - is now deemed as your ONLY choice, if you want to use your Lightning port for anything other than audio (like, say charging).
More stuff to carry! Hurray!
That’s still not the same. What the equivalent is that someone takes out the USB ports from your laptop today and tells you to print wirelessly because [it’s the current year!], but you have a printer....and no built-in Wi-Fi.
And taking away the audio jack still has “jack” to do with helping mobility. The device had BT before, along with wired audio. Now it has NO headphone jack.
You can spin it all you want, but it isn’t insta-ancient because that’s the line you need to parrot because Apple put you in the position of having to do so.