@lx headphone jack = analog, newer formats = digital. Analog easier to "detach" from the mainboard or otherwise disable. Digital interfaces can (more easily) be designed to be impossible to remove or disable, or to render the whole board "broken" if tampered with.
This is a SPECULATION - not fact. I was merely suggesting a possibility.
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