Looks good OP, just a suggestion, I opened the app and continued through (clicked continue to live feed) without airdropping the driver or clicking the link. Now i can't find a way to get back to that screen on the app. There should be a way to go back to that onboarding so that the user can both preview the image quality without having completed the setup but also continue it later.
Just a suggestion! I'll try it later.
Out of nowhere this started happening to me as well. Seems to be that a firmware update 6.8.8 broke connection on left airpod on Airpods Generation 1. Apple is doing nothing about it. It's been almost a year so far.