To play devil’s advocate, wearing hearing aids would suck because you are at the whim of whatever algorithm on the aid. Furthermore, they are adjusted to your hearing range. This is how they know your hearing is gone. Phones tend to be problematic especially in ambient environments. It isn’t like wearing earbuds more like noise canceling with fairly low pass through frequency. You’d be hard pressed to find people who would prefer this over normal hearing. I assume most people would also prefer to walk. Adderall is the exact opposite. Each pill is worth $20 at any university during cram time. That tells you it is desirable by all.