Is all USB C a Net Negative or Positive?

We have been hearing about USB-C as the next generation and greatest thing since sliced bread for close to a decade. While I have finally hit Nirvana and now have most of my portable stuff being USB-C (I had this realization when I was by Haber's house) I had my laptop, my Switch 2, phone, massage gun, and USB battery pack. The only thing that was missing was my Amazfit tracker, which still needs a weird little magnetic dongle puck that hangs off of USB-C.

This is great in theory until you are trying to find your USB 3.0 Type-C cable and you have to try 15 USB 2.0 charging-only cables that all look identical. If you live like a rich man, I guess you can chuck every single non-Thunderbolt 4 cable from your house and every new piece of gear you get. (Thanks guys, yes I am aware I can just buy LTT cables, my point remains!) Or the cheaper option I can go buy a tester and label every single cable, but I guess I havent reached ocd Nirvana yet.

For this situation of only needing one or two power bricks or cables to keep all my stuff charged, it was really nice, I cannot lie. But in general, I find it way more frustrating on the day to day when trying to find the correct cable for my device, for my NVMe drive to be full data transfer speed, and then trying to find the correct USB-A to C cable that supports Xiaomi's or OnePlus's fast charge. I then need to find my 1/2 amp brick for whatever tiny Chinese doohickey that isn't recognized except in a trickle charge state.

So yeah, I kinda go back and forth on this, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing that everything sorta works but doesn't necessarily work perfectly.

Thoughts?

AY

This is day 39 of #100DaysToOffload