It has obvious advantages, but the way it went no further than mini\micro-usb in design department shows it’s flaws even more.
The death of connecting parts was always a concern, and short, smooth format without any kind of a clipse fixation makes it fail to connect after a while like any other with the same production quality.
The overuse of it nowadays leads to bigger failure rates because you now can use cords interchangeably, so these connectors wear off faster than before (not to say your devices have faster charging times and higher discharging rates, so the plug\unplug routine is generally more frequent nowadays).
Your go-to universal cord can charge your phone, earbuds, vape, notebook, video-converter, beatmachine, microphone, gamepad etc. And unless you have a dedicated cord for each one of those, you’d experience them breaking up at surprising speeds.
The two-sided design is it’s crowning jewel, but I could’ve traded it for some better one-sided longer design with some sort of a lock instead. Some DP cords I have have a pair of teeth that can secure the connector in the hole, with a button to release it. It is not possible in Type-C I believe.
Big Cord bathes in cash as we speak.
I’ve never in my life had any USB cord or connector break on any device for maybe 20 years. Only when lending it to someone else did one connector break, once, and they dropped the thing while connected.
I feel like there’s two camps within USB. People who fucking rip their cord out and shove it in again—impatient people I guess. And then there’s people who are careful with their shit.
Maybe a hot take. 🤷♂️