I've always been a bit confused with this market. I have some zero2's that sound great but I hate having to be tethered to my phone and accidentally pull it out of the phone and I HATE the sound of the cable moving or cable thump. Yes, you can fix this when seated at a desk but then I'd just rather use my desktop monitors and sub to get the sound out of my head. So when I want headphones I just reach for my airpod pros every time. noise cancelation is amazing with zero cable thump, never pull them out of the device, and get passthrough audio when I need to hear my surroundings, can answer my phone and go right back to consuming whatever content I was consuming, can switch from my laptop to my phone audio or even my apple tv if it's late and I need to be silent with the tv across the room.
My Zero 2's have been relegated to ps5 vr2 duty and even then I like to have my open back headphones so I can hear when someone needs me or the phone rings etc.
It's crazy cool that the performance is where it is for the price but I just don't understand the use case.
Why do you guys like them and use them? I'm genuinely curious.