I've never experienced any of the issues you've mentioned and have been a user of AirPods since they were first released. My _only_ complaint has ever been battery life.

I've tried many other brands (I had lost two pairs of AirPods from all the travel I was doing) and everything else was an awful experience for anything but simply listening to something. I have to manually disconnect from my phone then re-connect to my computer (AirPods solve this), people could never hear me through the microphones, and generally I was better off not using the "controls" the other brands offered.

I really wanted to like cheaper alternatives, but they're just not good. AirPods, however, are fantastic.