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Same. At least my recent Xiaomi still has two of these 3 features (not the removable battery sadly, but also it has a plastic back). It seems like smartphone design already peaked some time ago, and now it's time to start making them worse and worse for the sake of more profit.
The headphone jack thing is especially infuriating because it's a $1 part which once removed requires you to buy more expensive and worse-sounding Bluetooth headphones which also have a consumable battery which requires continuous charging and will die one day. I guess the memory card slot is also a $1 part which once removed forces you to overpay for storage when you buy the phone, so that's really awful too.
Have you used wired headphones recently? Jesus' name.
I use a wire with my hand-me-down bluetooth headphones all the time, as I often forget to charge them.
My only pair of headphones is wired, I'm not rich so I only replace them when they break. These have a really flat response which is what I was looking for, and they were only $80 back then (still the most expensive pair I've ever bought, but way cheaper than wireless solutions).