[ssl-3]

The spec is good. Spec-compliant devices tolerate idiot users extremely well.

The implementers of the spec are sometimes errant nimrods, though. Errant nimrods can bring a bad time to any party they decide to be involved in. This can be particularly problematic when they're weaponized by having their own manufacturing divisions.

(And that's not new: Errant nimrods have been in charge of manufacturing fucked up devices for as long as we've had devices for them to fuck up. Probably centuries, by now; maybe longer.)

[tardedmeme]

Implementers and end users are both customers of the spec.

[izacus]

I see a lot of complaining and very little proposed alternatives. What do you propose USB-C standard should have done?

[ssl-3]

Sure.

But only one of these groups is responsible for supplying actual-fucking-hardware to the group that simply uses it.

And sometimes, that group consists of errant fucking nimrods.