so I sucked it up and pre-ordered these at the beginning of the year. yeah, it really was a 6 week wait...
with that being said, using these has been an absolute joy. sound quality is fairly decent. IMHO a little better than the default Earpods, but not like mind blowing.
But the convenience of these are on a wholly different level. I have never once had to worry about charge with them. I charge the case maybe every few days or so, and mostly it's me at my PC at work thinking "meh I might as well plug in my lightning cable and charge my case" I don't actually have any idea what it's at.
being able to, with my phone in my pocket, put these in, connect to them from my Apple Watch (assuming they were previously connected to my Mac or ipad), and start my music playing without ever taking my phone out is amazing.
pausing just taking it out of my ear (and then resuming) is like icing on a super delicious cake.
outside of audio quality, these are easily the number one most convenient earbuds every released imho. fortunately audio quality is fine enough that it basically puts them over. $160 is steep... but it's basically an early adopter price on the future of wireless audio.