ITT: people who own AirPods love them and people who don't say they suck.
They're great if you know what you're getting into. By non-IEM earbud standards sound quality is great. They do leak slightly, but that's by design - these are not meant to create a seal. They are for casual listening and on-the-go use where it may be important to hear what's around you. Regular EarPods sometimes fell out of my ear, but using AirPods made me realize the culprit was almost always something pulling on the cable - AirPods never fall out for me. Battery life lasts ages thanks to the charging case. I usually go 4-5 days between charges and I use them for hours every day. The buds charge super fast in the case too. Range is also great. I can use them two rooms away from my phone.
The big thing I would say is I'd only get them if you are deep in Apple stuff, though. I use an iPhone, iPad, and a MacBook Pro, so the easy iCloud syncing makes it painless to go between devices. With non-Apple devices you lose out on simple syncing as well as connection range and reliability. Also: Apple's video apps delay the video ever so slightly to compensate for Bluetooth latency where third party stuff often does not. It's not super noticeable, but I'm sensitive to this stuff, so I can tell. Also, naturally, don't get them if EarPods hurt your ears or just fall out even without the cable pulling them.
I should note also that I don't use AirPods as my ONLY set of headphones. Where latency or audio quality are important (ie, home listening or hobbyist music production) I have a pair of ATH-m50x. From a pure sound quality POV, though, the difference is not actually as vast as you might think - certainly not what many people in this thread claim.
If your deciding metric for headphones is just pure "price to audio quality," of course, AirPods are a bad option. Get some open backed cans. But then those are big and wired and completely useless in public, aren't they? AirPods are not about pure price to audio quality, they are about being convenient as hell and super small and with battery life that feels nearly infinite in use, and for that they are best in breed.