The show was almost canceled after the third season because an eighth season would've been too expensive. Better cancel five seasons sooner, then.
You'd need to fork if you decided that you don't like the direction an engine is moving towards. Other than that there's no real reason.
You could technically fork Blink but the question is whether you have the resources to keep up with web standards. The Web is effectively the universal UI toolkit these days and the pace of development reflects that.
Modern ANC is impressive.
When I'm on my bike I actually have less wind noise with my earbuds in than with my bare ears, which was a pretty odd feeling at first.
I also have a pair of over-ears, Sony XM5s, which have even better ANC. Used those while vacuuming and didn't hear the motor of the vacuum cleaner. I heard its wheels, though. Freaky.
Of course all of this is tied to the usual Bluetooth headphone drawbacks so YMMV.
On the other hand Bluetooth can crackle if the airwaves are too noisy, you have to spend more for the same audio quality (and it's still going to take a nosedive when calling someone because A2DP codecs like AAC or AptX aren't available in HSP mode), and the buds have limited batteries which makes them unreliable for long-term wear.
It's all about trade-offs and individual requirements. Of course these days you're pushed to get wireless ones because most phone manufacturers are too cheap to include a headphone jack.
Eh. I went for TWSes for my latest purchase because I wanted anti-wind ANC. I still have a wired pair (and one of those silly USB adapters) for long-term operation, though.
The TWS equivalent to that is one of the buds no longer turning on. I just had to RMA a pair because of that.
And I wouldn't know where to start using it. My problems are often of the "integrate two badly documented company-internal APIs" variety. LLMs can't do shit about that; they weren't trained for it.
They're nice for basic rote work but that's often not what you deal with in a mature codebase.
Given that WiFi 7 isn't finished yet (everyone's working with a draft spec that's assumed to be closer enough to final) I'd go with an AX210 right now.
There are non-Intel WiFi 7 chipsets available (including a Qualcomm) but they're hard to obtain and obviously pretty bleeding edge. I'd just wait for now. If you need WiFi 7 later you can always upgrade. WiFi chipsets aren't terribly expensive.
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