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I used to have a phone a few years ago with wireless charging and personally found no real use for it.
Thing is, you need a spot for the charging pad where you'll regularly put down your phone. That's pretty much only ever gonna be the case, if you're glued to your desk for your day job.
Ideally, you do still need to get up every few minutes, though, so that unplugging and re-plugging your phone actually becomes annoying.
Or I guess, it's also cool, if you get annoyed by using your phone with the wire plugged in and you often just quickly pick up your phone to answer text messages.
Otherwise, I doubt it makes up for the annoyances of wireless charging, which are:
I'm guessing, so many phones have it despite that, because as far as I'm aware, it just requires some copper wire rolled up to a coil in the back of the phone, so it's presumably quite cheap to include.