[gumby]

This is a success! USB-C was designed so that the part most likely to fail is the inexpensive plug, not the socket.

One of the problems with USB mini-A was that the socket would fail, meaning the device had to be repaired or discarded. Combined with the short lifetime (about 300 insertions) it was a disaster which is why you almost never see it.

You’d be more unhappy of those failures had happened in your expensive device rather than your cheap cables.