Someone, perhaps at Apple: Please explain this behavior.

I turn on my Bluetooth headphones. I watch a video on my Mac. The video ends. I turn off the headphones. Some other device, perhaps a phone or iPad, elsewhere in the room immediately starts playing music through its speakers using the Music app. I did not ask for this. I do not want this. I think this is an inexplicable design choice. I just turned the headphones off; why is that a signal I want to listen to something somewhere, anywhere that you can find? Baffling.

@robpike exhibit A in “if you can’t make magic work reliably, give the user explicit control instead”. Apple burning billions of dollars fixing audio routing would do far, far more for their brand than any amount of AI integration.
@commaok I think you found the rub with "give the user explicit control instead" in the context of Apple.