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My question isn't why BT is so unreliable, rather, despite all its problems, why is it still so ubiquitous?

Because it actually works fine when vendors get their act together.

A lot of the products out there are cobbled together “works on my machine” quality.

The existing mass. Currently there have 4.9 billion Bluetooth devices shipped. It might be shit, but it's the shit we have and know.