AirPod mic background noise unbearable for the person you’re calling!!!

I am finding my airpods almost useless due to the background noice picked up by the mic. If I run water, open a bag of chips, put away dishes, take a sip of my drink, and God forbid I sneeze — the person on the other end hears this noise more clearly than I do! If I am outside walking, my caller can hear birds singing that I would otherwise hardly notice. Because of this, I am never using the AirPods for work calls. I could not type on the keyboard for fear of annoying everyone in the meeting. The ONLY time the airpods are useful is when I am sitting still in a quiet room! I can find this discussed on this forum only once and the solution provided did not help the issue at all. (Restart your phone, forget this device, reset you Airpods and reconnect — does nothing for the issue). For a long time (almost a year now) I have assumed this is just what you get with airpods but I decided to investigate a bit. When I saw the one discussion on this topic (the original poster had same issue as me and the solution provide also didn’t work for him) others spoke of being at a train station and able to have a conversation without issue, others talked about walking through an airport and having no issue with background mic noise. I cannot fathom using the Airrpods so freely, based on my experience. To be perfectly clear - the issue is with the mic background noise. The person you are speaking to hears everything in your background amplified x 100!!!! What is really interesting is that my sister has the exact issue. As we are casually chatting and she takes a bite of something, it sounds to me like a horse eating oats!! Would love a resolution to this!!!