Not necessarily, some high-end headphones manage to have a low resistance and high sensitivity combo and are easy to “drive” without a dedicated amp.

Whole life been like this

Those are all valid. For me, the two reasons I like to use one is:

• Better for social media with very limited characters
• You can choose the “slug” and make your source link into an easy to remember link that works anywhere (only on certain shorteners, I use one that lets you do this for free)
  Bonus reason I guess:
• When source link needs to be updated but you want to keep the same destination URL, you can do this via the shortener service and now you don’t have to update that link in the code or data of your websites that use it. (Some shorteners don’t support this, I use one that does)

So far 5G has been slower and less reliable (more random dropped and switched connections) than 4G LTE, and LTE-A was super fast for a bit. The 5G rollout is still ongoing too.