[megous]

Each port can accept or give power (at various voltages) potentially or act as data sink/source (determined on connection), or have alt modes.

Such device would be either quite "fun" to use, unless it had type C ports marked with dedicated functionality, so you'd have to be careful what device you plug to what port.

AFAIK there's no protocol to control other ports via PD from the port you'd connect to the "main" device (like your laptop). So the behavior would be all pretty random, or the ports would have to be fixed in function.

[CubsFan1060]

I technically get it, but it’s amazing you’d design a solution that didn’t handle this. Seems like the pattern now is “just use usba anyway”