Personally, I'm also a big fan of wires. My partner however, she fucking hates them.
I can try to run-down her thought process for you:
1) Wires look untidy
This doesn't have to be true necessarily, but making wires neat is an art form, having a wire that goes behind the sofa from the TV for example is something that will never easily be hidden.
2) Wires are hard to clean/collect dust
Wires that don't have that fancy plastic routing plates seem to accumulate dust, and are hard to clean around generally. Loose wires that spiral are the worst but even single cables running across the edges of the room seem to be harder to clean.
3) Wires dont "add any benefit".
For her, if it works it works, and when it doesn't (and I explain that it's because the signal is poor or there is interference) then her reaction is: "You're smart, you work with computers, make it work."- so I do ugly things like run powerline over ethernet which has it's own cons.
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There is a generalised ignorance about how wireless communication systems work in the non-tech populace, nobody thinks about a 'shared segment of space', they think in terms of themselves, their router, and principally "their connection at the time" to the wifi router.
I fucking hate wires too, so I'd add the following to your partner's complaints:
4) Wires make the physical environment much more shaky.
I have a cat. Like all cats, he occasionally gets rambunctious. When he goes zooming around the desk, the more things that are connected with wires, the more likely that something gets yanked by something else into a catastrophic (as it were) orgy of destruction.
Of course, one could just unplug everything that isn't in use, in which case one runs into:
5) Wires create complicated organizational challenges in practical use
For example, many of us have more devices than one has things to plug them into (whether that is outlets to plug into the wall or USB ports on the computer or whatever); changing devices means rooting through a pile of cords to figure out which one happens to go into which thing that needs plugging in. Wires also impose location limitations on the things they're attached to, as extra-extra long wires sometimes degrade data quality too, or are spec-violative because of some kind of safety consideration[1], or impose other ancillary safety considerations such as the risk of tripping, of putting furniture on some power wire and fraying it like crazy, further cat dangers, etc. etc.
Maybe in an industrial environment, where the entire physical plant can be adapted to the needs of the equipment, it makes sense to wire everything. But in a home, where people have needs independent of servicing their devices and don't have the money to, for example, hire someone to cut holes into the wall to run all the cables through there, wires can seriously degrade a bunch of realistic practical considerations.
Source: myself, a person who has recently moved to a building that provides free cable, and hence has cable TV for the first time in his life; has now discovered that in order to make a basic cable tv + internet setup work, one needs 3 wires into the TV, 4 wires into the modem and a splitter on the cable jack, 3 wires into the cable box which apparently is also a TV, and, since modern TVs have shit speakers so a sound bar with 2 or 3, I forget which and can't tell in the wire forest, wires into that. The cable wire is run entirely across the living room, since apparently the only place to connect to the cable company is on the opposite side of the living room from where any rational person would put a TV, all resulting in this horror; [2] all of which is powered buy a single duplex outlet with multiple surge protectors in it, which, at least if you believe the Yale fire marshal, is a no-no[3], but other random places on the internet disagree and, any way, what choice do we have in the Land of Endless Wires?
I can try to run-down her thought process for you:
1) Wires look untidy
This doesn't have to be true necessarily, but making wires neat is an art form, having a wire that goes behind the sofa from the TV for example is something that will never easily be hidden.
2) Wires are hard to clean/collect dust
Wires that don't have that fancy plastic routing plates seem to accumulate dust, and are hard to clean around generally. Loose wires that spiral are the worst but even single cables running across the edges of the room seem to be harder to clean.
3) Wires dont "add any benefit".
For her, if it works it works, and when it doesn't (and I explain that it's because the signal is poor or there is interference) then her reaction is: "You're smart, you work with computers, make it work."- so I do ugly things like run powerline over ethernet which has it's own cons.
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There is a generalised ignorance about how wireless communication systems work in the non-tech populace, nobody thinks about a 'shared segment of space', they think in terms of themselves, their router, and principally "their connection at the time" to the wifi router.