[tmzt]

This feels like something Steve would not have let out the door, those kind of rules should never be the customer's concern.

[Decade]

Yes, he did. As nsxwolf commented, the 2010 MacBook Pro had USB 2 ports that ran at different speeds. And I remember vaguely that that wasn’t the first time.

It’s just not your problem because, really, how many people are going to be inconvenienced by the right Thunderbolt ports being slightly slower than the left Thunderbolt ports?