[mnkmnk]

I actually can’t on my MacBook Air M1. You have to get the connector in the right horizontal orientation and at the right physical position. And the portable usb-c docks are so heavy and unwieldy that it becomes difficult to get them in place. If I try to plug it in without looking, then I risk scratching around the MacBook ports. A circular physical connection would be a lot better in my opinion, or at least some kind of physical slotting to help it get the connector in place.

[Melatonic]

You could put a very small piece of tape over the port and then cut out just the area where the port itself is - that would at least mean that it would stop the connector from scratching the laptop. Clear tape might be pretty invisible.

[lsaferite]

That sounds more like an Apple "form over function" issue than a USB-C issue.