They don't work for either of us and yet Apple wants to force us into using them
If you really dislike wireless for some reason, you can also get lighting earbuds (I think the iPhone 7 actually includes some).
Finally, if you like all these ideas so much, you can avoid purchasing the product you dislike. It's not like they're forcing this onto existing clients by disabling the existing 3.5mm jack.
Well yeah, they sort of are. The future is wireless, there's really no denying that at this point.