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.
Not an unpopular opinion but a plain wrong one. I’ve had USB C cables for far longer than the devices they connect to, can’t really remember any of the connectors ever giving me trouble I’ve yet to see a cable/connector fail due to wear. It’s a solid spec and the wide range of uses is brilliant.
only issue I’ve ever had with usb-c, was dust. collected in the female port on the phone. sewing needle to clean the port, worked like new again.
well, there was other issues but that’s more a 'bought the wrong cable’s as it was data only and didn’t have pd.
Noo don’t use a metal needle you could short the port. The best thing I found for cleaning them are plastic toothpicks like the ones on the end of a “disposable” flosser.
Then you can suggest a brand or a price category for them, I guess. The one that failed the last cost me $7 for 3 meters, that is 1,5 chain-place pizzas where I live. The one that came with my generic ps4-clone controller holds noticeably better, but it’s way shorter so it seen way less wear. I guess it’s a product quality + the frequency of how I use just a few of them.
Please try to disagree without gatekeeping (e.g. telling them their opinion is wrong).
Not gonna mod this comment or anything, just giving a warning.