Yaak has a commercial paywall if you use the pre-built binaries. You can easily build it yourself without licensing tho

They are informed a few minutes before the public announcement, so it's either them waking them, or their family or neighbors a few minutes later

I disagree. The connector is fragile, subject to dust, contacts can wear out and audio quality suffers. Faulty connection means you have to twist it the correct way to have audio. Tug on your cable the wrong way and the connector on your phone is broken. Multiple standards for pinout for microphone and stereo. May cause shorts because every ring touches when plugging in. Disconnects too easily if the connector is fatigued, no locking mechanism.
At this point it would be better to reserve a few pins on a USB C connector to pass audio data. But not sure if analog can transmit fine with all the serial cables around it.

Yeah I didn't get it either