[orphea]

  Especially my cheap consumer electronics. Sometimes they will charge, sometimes they won't charge

This is not USB C's fault. It's the manufacturers who cheaped out a cent - or even less - on CC resistors.

[superxpro12]

on 0401 5k resistor is fractions of a penny. its just silly at this point. My belief is that they all used some crappy reference schematic which omitted it once upon a time, and that's proliferated amongst all the cheapo designs.