Interesting, experience was that those were quite durable: 3 connections and then the port soldered into the board.

Any issues I seen were with the headphone cable and the jack.

I had a lot of issues with USB especially micro USB that just worn down after use even when your were careful. And because it is using digital protocol I had to remove and insert jack again until it clicks.

I have this problem with USB C on my work’s Mac.

I see people mentioning “features”, “features”, “features” what actually are the features they require?

I really loved their Droid 1. Phone jack, sd card slot, physical keyboard. It was one of my best phones.

How often you needed to replace 3.5mm female socket? I don’t think I ever encountered that (if there were issues it was always with the cable), but had to replace USB female socket several times.