The headphone jack does well work well now that I am using wifi calling within the suite. I'm quite pleased with the Moto G Play with only 4 GB of RAM and the Snapdragon 680. It's comfortable visually and adequately powerful.
I've spent a fair bit of time looking into the rationale for removing the headphone jack. None of the excuses make any sense when I review critically the claims. Some of the most waterproof phones with the best battery life and slimmest bodies have 3.5 mm headphone jacks, especially older models.
To deal with lack of a headphone jack, consumers are buying Anker, UGreen, Apple, or no-name USB-C to headphone jack dongles, or else choosing from a poor selection of USB-C headphones/headsets, or else using BT/wireless.
Not any of those solutions is as pleasant as simply plugging into a durable, cylindrical headphone jack. I haven't found a single dongle not plagued by terrible one-star reviews, and apparently the phone's battery drains significantly faster having anything plugged into the USB-C vs using a headphone jack.
BT/wireless? Rather silly when wired works so well, never needs batteries, is so richly supported, and doesn't bring a radiofrequency device right next to the brain.
The Moto G includes a classic headphone jack plus a benign and comfortable IPS display. I recommend it and encourage other community members to try it as well.
As for the removal of the jack, my guess is at some level of the world power structure they want to encourage a more wireless future. Wireless/BT seems more impressive than plugging in wires. I just don't buy the popular idea I keep reading that these companies removed the jack out of pure greed because the only phone company to adequately capitalize on BT/wireless headphones/headsets and dongles has been Apple. Therefore, the others would have enjoyed a competitive advantage keeping the beloved headphone jack, but that's not what we saw. That is why I drew the parallel to Covid/2020. We saw governments everywhere all acting the same, sabotaging their economies the same with unprecedented "lockdowns" and doing everything possible to get the public to sign up for the same mRNA injections. None of it was about greed. It was about respecting the wishes of those calling the shots at supranational levels, at the height of the world's hierarchical pyramid.
Headphone jack removal is anti-consumer. When you have the headphone jack you can use other options OR the jack, while without it you are forced to accept fewer options, and you're told the limitation is a premium feature.
On another note, I read obituaries off and on to keep life in perspective. I see an alarming number of young people with cancer and early deaths. To me it makes a whole lot of sense to reduce exposure where easy and convenient, and given the choice I would never choose wireless/BT over wired for music or calls.
RE: IPS vs OLED, the IPS of the Moto G can get really dim without any PWM. With OLED minimum brightness is far higher unless you don't mind subjecting your eyes and brain to disturbing levels of PWM. IPS also is more durable. I have a phone from 2015, meaning 10 years old, and the IPS screen still looks perfect except for 1 single dead pixel. Incidentally that phone also has a removal battery, so for $30 users were able to completely and easily refresh that portion of the phone. Non-removal = planned obsolescence, disposable. Everyone knows batteries get worse with use and time.