I didn’t bother reading it all but seems like the writer is mostly complaining about their personal tech issues and blaming their house, which seems to have an almost ideal setup for building a good network.
Overlooking that is very possible, but I guess I expected more, isn’t The Verge a tech site?
I want it mostly for aux in various cars. Also neat to plug into PC speakers and such.
I’d pass up on fingerprint scanner and nfc before the jack tbh.