I would like someone who is having this problem to look at the 2.4 ghz band with an SDR. My initial untested hypothesis is the transmit power of the airpods can't handle the frequency competition of a peripheral device that is most likely way closer to the computer than the airpods.
With the conflicting experiences in these threads I wonder if there's an unknown third component that's influencing this problem. Some other interference causing Logitech hardware to switch bands or causing Bluetooth devices to use different connection properties, for example.
It doesn't take all that much interference to get a multi device Bluetooth piconet to see disturbance, perhaps a combination of interference sources is causing the Bluetooth performance on some Bluetooth adapter to fall back to lower speeds, ruining the experience for devices relying on high throughput Bluetooth.
