[Zak]

This is my pet peeve about USB-C laptop docks. The vast majority of them have a captive cable, usually about 10cm long. It's a failure point, often an inconvenient length, and makes them much harder to pack.

[burnte]

I see both sides, having a removable dock-cable is nice but then you run the risk of users using low-spec cables that don't work with the dock, and people blame the dock.

[Zak]

I imagine that is one of the reasons. It probably also lowers costs a little.

Sometimes the market rejects making products worse to lower costs or discourage user error. I wish that was the case here.