The Sony Xperia series is a vote-with-your-wallet candidate for those of us who like card slots, 3.5mm jacks, water resistance, notification lights, and notch-free screens.
The wallets have spoken for years; phones without headphone jacks sell exceedingly well despite this missing feature. Jane Shmoe doesn't care; she uses a dongle, or gets Bluetooth headphones from the Chinese knockoff bin at the pharmacy.
Her minivan also connects to it when she walks up, instead of having to fish wires out of her already overloaded purse.
Don't judge her life choices, she's got to get her 1.6 kids to the Soccer practice!
Man, I wish they still had the compact line. I had an XZ1 compact and it was amazing. I still use it for playing music (via the headphone jack) and it is just wonderful every time I pick it up - so small and light compared to this humongous pixel 6 I replaced it with. I keep thinking of going back to a flip phone. Man I miss that little phone. Wish there were something non-Apple to replace it with.
If they wouldn't stop publishing security uogrades exactly 3 years after each phone's first market introduction in Japan, I would have bought one...
Oh, and they cripple the camera permanently when you root the phone.