I kind of think that the majority of people using wireless mice would probably be better off just using corded mice.

There are some use cases where wireless is really valuable, like if one needs to move a mouse around a conference room or something.

But...I would guess that a tiny fraction of a percentage of users of wireless mice are doing something like that. Most just sit on a desk by the computer they are driving. Instead, wireless is generally just sold as the "premium" option for mice.

And wireless has a number of drawbacks that come with it.

• Needing to manage battery charge in another device (or replace batteries, if they're replaceable).

• More cost.

• More weight.

• If the battery isn't removable

and that one at least is addressed here

at some point, that device is going to stop working. I have very elderly USB wired devices that work just fine; USB has been around for a long time and probably will stay around, and even if it goes away, will probably have adapters show up. Battery lifetimes haven't generally done so well with my inexpensive gadgets; I have a horde of things with lithium batteries that are now non-functional. I was looking into getting a light pad (a portable light table) the other day, and was specifically looking for one without a lithium battery, because I didn't want the thing to stop working at some point; light table technology probably isn't going to change much in the future. I don't know if I'd call a USB-based device something that I'd really "buy for life", but I'd be far more ready to do that than try to do so with any device with a built-in battery.

• Latency. For most users, not a huge issue, but it seems wild to me that in a world where a number of video game players do things like disable vsync or things like that to try to shave down input latency a tiny bit, someone would just casually use the (often varying) latency of a wireless mouse.

• Dropouts. I remember using a wireless Logitech F710 game controller. One day, a radio frequency device showed up in the area that happened to interfere with it, and every now and then, you'd have a few seconds where the gamepad wouldn't respond. Wired busses avoid the problem.

• Privacy. Not a huge issue for a fixed system, but Bluetooth identifiers can be used to track, say a laptop user, if someone with an Apple or Google phone using Location Services goes anywhere near you.

• Security. Wireless devices can be talked to and heard a long ways away, if you have a directional antenna. Maybe you trust your wireless protocol (and I'd probably trust Bluetooth more than I would the proprietary 2.4 GHz protocols that some devices use), but I'd sooner trust a wire than a radio transmitter.

There are some benefits.

A cable can produce a small amount of resistance, and some people who play video games don't want that interference with their aim

but there are devices to even deal with that:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mouse+bungee

There's a bit less time to plug in a cable if you have a laptop that you're constantly pulling down and setting up again. That's not huge, but it does add up.

It could be a bit less tangle, but...man, even if you have a ton of cables atop your desk, there are usually much simpler ways to deal with "I have a rat's nest of cables". Stick a Velcro cable management tie on the thing or something.

I look at that, and I just have a hard time saying "the pros are a great tradeoff for the cons for most".

With WiFi, say, I get a wireless argument. There's a common use case where you haul a device long distances around a building and running cables everywhere is a hassle. But for most mouse use, that same situation just doesn't arise.