Motorola already did this with the Moto Z. I'm sure after apple launches the headphone jack-less iPhone, every phone company will follow :/
I just hope they have a way to cater to those who DO want to charge their phone and have headphones plugged in at the same time... it would be WAY too good to be true if apple provided free wireless earbuds in the box, but they will probably ship out the phones with wired lightning connector earbuds and have you figure out a way to charge your phone and plug in a headset at the same time.
I currently have the iphone 6s Plus and this will be my phone for the next 5 years or so. What's the point of having a super thin phone anyhow if the camera is going to protrude? so stupid.
Also this is a huge mess for consumers because if you buy Lightning headphones, those don't work with Android phones, and vice versa, so this is going to be a huge mess because you simply cannot use 1 set of headphones on both phones.
Which is why we need a standard aka 3.5mm jack.
Or Apple can get off their high horse and drop lightning and add USB-C which is the same size, reversable, etc etc and then all the new phones can use that and there won't be much of an issue as most new Androids are going to have USB-C