Why is Bluetooth so much flakier than USB, WiFi, etc?

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For ~20 years now, basic USB and WiFi connection have been in the category of “mostly expected to work” – you do encounter incompatibilities but it tends to be unusual.

Bluetooth, on the other hand, seems to have been “expected to fail or at least be flaky as hell” since Day 1, and it doesn’t seem to have gotten better over time. What makes the Bluetooth stack/protocol so much more apparently-unstable than other protocols?

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Do people have problems with Bluetooth alot? As long as I’m within a reasonable distance and there isn’t a thick material obstructing line of sight I’ve never really had an issue.

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