The headphones thing is very much a matter of morphology and personal preference. I know for instance anything other than IEMs is intolerable over any significant period of time for myself.
It's a series of tradeoffs, and finding a headphone that is right for you and your situation is far from trivial.
In my experience they work well if you only connect it to a single device, but if you use the two device mode then the mic is useless.
Obviously, YMMV