The standard connectors have a horrible tendency to break through mechanical wear after a few years. On the laptop side, not the charger side.
They also take the laptop with them then pulled by a kid or fell over on.
If there's a problem with the MagSafe, it's that the cable itself breaks after 12-18 months due to lack of stress relief, requiring an expensive replacement and inspiring people to buy $15 euro fire starters.
Complain about Apple being too cheap to hire some proper engineers to build the cable, not the brilliantly designed connector.
I've repaired dozens of laptops and the one thing the broken power connectors had in common was being soldered directly to the motherboard instead of using a separate assembly.
They also take the laptop with them then pulled by a kid or fell over on.
If there's a problem with the MagSafe, it's that the cable itself breaks after 12-18 months due to lack of stress relief, requiring an expensive replacement and inspiring people to buy $15 euro fire starters.
Complain about Apple being too cheap to hire some proper engineers to build the cable, not the brilliantly designed connector.