[awinder]

  I do miss the external LED that 
  showed whether you were 
  connected to power or not and 
  whether it was fully charged

This reminds me of the battery button that displayed a range of leds to show charge percentage when closed.

Seems like Apple could have kept MagSafe and added the usb-c ports w/ option to charge through usb-c or MagSafe. it probably wouldn’t have been a very Apple-like thing to do and then you don’t have nice clean symmetric ports, but that little cable definitely saved lots of repair dollars over the years for me