[projektfu]

My experience with lightning cables has been that they frequently get scorched on one of the pins so that the cable becomes one-sided, the female side frequently fills with lint and slowly causes mismating, and they often claim to be waterlogged because, I guess, it's humid outside of California.

It's difficult to buy lightning-compatible devices because Apple incentivizes knockoffs instead of authentic parts. Even if you wanted to buy from a reputable brand like Apple, Anker or Belkin, they might not have the type of product you need.

On the other hand USB-C is designed to exclude water and is better at lint exclusion, never seems to arc, and is a real standard that has many suppliers of quality interfaces.

[smoldesu]

The cable sleeve is also notoriously fragile. I've gone through 5+ first-party lightning cables from frayed rubber sleeving alone.

[Laaas]

I've had a similar experience wrt. it getting scorched, but I've found that you can fix it my cleaning it thoroughly.